In Memoriam

Zalina Slanova, our friend, colleague and the author of many Bulletin articles, has passed away. Zalina was a gifted person who generously shared her talents (she sang many times for Memorial members at fundraising events) and advice (while working on…read more

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseeva, aged 91, passed away on December 8, 2018 in Moscow. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” expresses its condolences to all the relatives and colleagues of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, as well as all people she took care about…read more

On December 18, 2017 passed away Arseny Roginsky, the Chairman of the Board of the International Memorial Society. He had been fighting for historical truth and Human Rights years before the foundation of the MEMORIAL movement and paid for this fight…read more

Suddenly, the news came in of the untimely death of Nikolay Bessonov, a Russian artist, researcher of Russian Roma and a great friend of the Romani people. The legacy of Bessonov is vast and varied, he worked very hard –…read more

It is with great sorrow that we report on the loss on December 5, 2016 of Sergey Khakhayev (b. 1938), who has been the chairman of St. Petersburg Association “Memorial” for many years. He was a political prisoner in the…read more

On the day of the funeral of Boris Nemtsov – a bold and consistent critic of the Russian authorities, who was killed near the Kremlin by gunshots in the back (the murderer, of course, disappeared without a trace and it…read more