Auf der 75. Frankfurter Buchmesse präsentieren Memorial Zukunft und Memorial Deutschland, die Mitgliedsverbände der Internationalen Vereinigung Memorial, das Projekt Voices of War | Stimmen des Krieges und laden Sie zu einer Podiumsdiskussion in das Fritz Bauer Institut (Universität Frankfurt am…
One of the most noticeable trends in legislative thought in the summer and fall of this year concerns various prohibitions on propaganda. Russian parliamentarians are passionately discussing what kind of “propaganda” they should ban: Article 280 of the Criminal Code…
In awarding Ms Mohammadi the prize, the head of the Nobel committee noted that she fought for women against systemic discrimination and oppression. Narges Mohammadi is a journalist and spokesperson for the Iranian human rights NGO Defenders of Human Rights…
The independent media outlet “Barents Observer”, covering the problems of the Russian-Norwegian border territories, was blocked by Roskomnadzor in 2019. The reason for blocking the “Barents Observer” was “propaganda of suicide” in a published article about Dan Eriksson, a representative…
When the famous Soviet figure-skaters Belousova and Protopopov fled the USSR in 1979, asking for political asylum in Switzerland, they were called traitors and renegades. There was even a verse: “So you are just deserters, just vlasovtsy [supporters of Soviet…
At the beginning of February 2022, the promotion of “traditional values” in Russia faced obstacles. Firstly, a court in St. Petersburg suspended the liquidation of the Sphere Charitable Foundation, accused by the Ministry of Justice in threatening “traditional family values”…
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