Archive for 'Overcoming Stalin’s Legacy'
Moscow Yabloko protests against restoration of a bas-relief in a Moscow underground station depicting Joseph Stalin, and announces collection of signatures against this initiative
Press Release, 13.05.2025 Photo: A bas-relief “Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander” depicting Joseph Stalin at the Taganskaya underground station in Moscow, dismantled in 1965/ Photo by Glavarchiv, Moscow On 13 May, the Moscow branch of Yabloko sent an appeal to Maxim Liksutov, head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road and […]
Posted: May 13th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko activists to clean up Butovo Firing Range, the execution and burial site during Stalin’s period
Press Release, 5.05.2025 Photo: Yabloko members and supporters at Butovo Firing Range on 30 October, 2024 Cleaning up at the Butovo Firing Range in Moscow, the execution and burial site of victims of Joseph Stalin repression, will take place on 14 May, starting at 12:00.
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko is against replacing the memory of the Victory in the WWII with the praise of a tyrant
Statement by the Yabloko party, 1.05.2025 Photo by Kirill Braga, RIA Novosti On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in World War II, the topic of renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad [commemorating the name of Joseph Stalin] is being proposed again. President Vladimir Putin, who had previously signed a decree on assigning the […]
Posted: May 6th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko introduces federal initiative to open access to files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR
Press Release, 30.04.2025 Photo by Yuri Martyanov, Kommersant Deputies of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg have introduced a federal legislative initiative that should open access for relatives and researchers to archival files of non-exonerated victims of political repression in the USSR.
Posted: April 30th, 2025 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Last Address plaques commemorating victims of Stalin’s repression need state protection
Decision by the Federal Bureau of Yabloko, adopted on 10.04.2025, published on 24.04.2025 Photo: Restoration of the Last Address project plaques removed after an anonymous complaint / Photo by Alexander Chizhenok, Kommersant In early April, unidentified vandals removed the Last Address plaque installed on the house where famous theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold was arrested in […]
Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
Yabloko hosted a screening of the film about writer and human rights defender Viktor Bulgakov
Press Release, 24.02.2025 Photo: Viktor Antonovich Bulgakov Past week, the central office of the Yabloko party hosted the premiere screening of the film “Songs of a Forgotten Mine” and also conducted a meeting with its main character, writer and human rights defender Viktor. The film, made during 2022-2024, focuses on the hardest episodes in the […]
Posted: February 25th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
Yabloko to host a launch of the book “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity” by Mikhail Solovyov
Press Release, 19.02.2025 On 5 March, the anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Yabloko party office in Moscow will host a launch of the two-volume work by historian and social scientist Mikhail Solovyov “Stalinism: Lessons of History and Modernity”. Using historical materials, the author reveals the essence of Stalinism, its totalitarian nature. The book describes […]
Posted: February 20th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
A launch of a new documentary about a prisoner of Soviet camps “Viktor Bulgakov. Songs of a Forgotten Mine” will take place in Yabloko
Press Release, 13.02.2024 Viktor Bulgakov was arrested on 5 March, 1953. The seventeen-year-old student of the journalism department of Moscow State University, who wrote poetry and played music, was accused of creating a terrorist organisation. If Bulgakov had been eighteen, he would have been shot, but as it was, he was given 25 years of […]
Posted: February 13th, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
The Yabloko Party hosted a screening of the “Night and Fog” documentary dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust
Press Release, 30.01.2025 Photo: Grigory Grishin / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 29 January, the central office of the Yabloko Party in Moscow hosted a screening of the documentary film by French director Alain Resnais “Night and Fog” (“Nuit et Brouillard”), dedicated to the topic of the Holocaust. The discussion was moderated by […]
Posted: January 31st, 2025 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Speech, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
Comments: none
The Ministry of Internal Affairs to facilitate access to files of repressed persons in its archives
Press Release, 21.01.2025 Alexander Shishlov, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, has achieved a change in the inner instruction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which limited citizens’ access to archival documents related to their relatives repressed during Joseph Stalin’s period.
Posted: January 21st, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko asks the Moscow Department of Culture to explain the reason for dismissal of the Director of the GULAG History Museum
Press Release, 15.01.2025 Photo: Roman Romanov, the dismissed Director of the GULAG History Museum / Photo by Dmitry Lebedev, Kommersant Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov sent an appeal to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin with a request to explain the reasons for the dismissal of Roman Romanov […]
Posted: January 15th, 2025 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
“We are waiting for the rest of the court’s decisions.” Nikolai Rybakov on the decision of the court to provide the daughter of a victim of Stalin’s Great Terror deprived of housing then with an apartment
Nikolai Rybakov’s Telegram channel, 14.01.2025 Photo: screenshot of the broadcast of the “Mesto Vstrechi” programme on NTV, where Nikolai Rybakov shows photographs of “children of the Gulag” Good news has arrived – the court has for the first time ordered the Moscow Mayor’s Office to buy an apartment for the daughter of a repressed city resident. […]
Posted: January 14th, 2025 under Governance, Human Rights, Judiciary, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
The leader of the Zabaykalsky Krai branch of the Yabloko party spoke at the regional Legislative Assembly against the return of Stalinist practices
Press Release, 24.12.2024 Photo: Viktor Kurochkin / Photo by Oleg Fyodorov, CHITA.RU The Chairman of the Transbaikal regional branch of the Yabloko party, Viktor Kurochkin, spoke at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the Zabaikalsky Krai (Transbaikal Territory) on 20 December. In his speech, he noted that many specific features of the Stalinist era […]
Posted: December 26th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Yabloko hosted a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva
Press Release, 17.12.2024 Photo: Nina Khrushcheva / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Yabloko hosted a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva, political scientist and professor at the New School in New York, and great granddaughter of USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nina Khrushcheva spoke about her new book “Nikita Khrushchev. A Leader Outside the System”, and […]
Posted: December 25th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
Yabloko to host a second meeting with Nina Khrushcheva and discussion of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside the System”
Press Release, 13.12.2024 Photo: Nina Khrushcheva in the Yabloko office on 17 September, 2024. / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service On 16 December, the Moscow office of the Yabloko party will host a second meeting with political scientist Nina Khrushcheva, timed to coincide with the release of her book “Nikita Khrushchev: a Leader Outside […]
Posted: December 13th, 2024 under Conferences and Seminars, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Nikolai Rybakov: “The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has discredited his post and must resign”
Statement by the Yabloko Chairman, 3.12.2024 Photo from social media The head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has made an error once again. He gave the idea to remove the Solovetsky Stone [erected in memory of victims of Soviet political repression] from Lubyanka Square so as not to embarrass the people who work […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2024 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
Comments: none
Yabloko sent an appeal to the Moscow government to clarify the situation with the closure of the Gulag History Museum
Press Release, 27.11.2024 Photo: The Gulag History Museum on the day of its closure / Photo by Anatoly Zhdanov, Kommersant A letter signed by Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party Maxim Kruglov was sent to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Alexei Fursin. Kruglov asks the head of the department to list the […]
Posted: November 27th, 2024 under Governance, History, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none
Chelyabinsk Yabloko organised a lecture on political prisoners “The Last Route”
Press Release, 13.11.2024 Photo: the Zolotaya Gora memorial cemetery in the village of Shershni / Source: Chelyabinsk Yabloko To commemorate the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, the Chelyabinsk branch of Yabloko organised a lecture on “The Last Route” of Stalin’s political prisoners. On 3 November, the listeners of the lecture, together […]
Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
Comments: none
Yabloko held an expert discussion on the problem of overcoming Stalinism in modern Russia
Press Release 8.11.2024 Based on the discussion in the Yabloko Bureau on 31 October, 2024 On 31 October, Yabloko held an open meeting of the Federal Bureau of the party, timed to coincide with the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression. The topic of the large discussion was overcoming Stalinism. The following […]
Posted: November 8th, 2024 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
Comments: none
Lev Shlosberg: A state without memory
What is happening around the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions Lev Shlosberg’s blog post, 4.11.2024 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ЛЬВОМ МАРКОВИЧЕМ ШЛОСБЕРГОМ ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ЛЬВА МАРКОВИЧА ШЛОСБЕРГА 18+ THE PRESENT MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT LEV MARKOVITCH SHLOSBERG OR […]
Posted: November 4th, 2024 under Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
Comments: none