Prague, 2 February 2022 – In the Czech Republic the case against Lubomír Štrougal and Vratislav Vajnar for the deaths on the Iron Curtain has been interrupted as new assessments of their health are awaited. However, according to Christian Härtl, the…
Prague, 25 January – The Platform’s travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” continues in 2022 to other destinations throughout Portugal, after Porto, Lisbon and the University of Coimbra. Thanks to the Platform’s partner organisation Instituto +Liberdade, the first-ever overview of available statistics…
On 28 December 2021, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to shut down the Russian International Memorial organisation. In addition to earlier accusations of violation of the “foreign agent” legislation, the prosecutor accused Memorial of “creating a false…
Prague, 5 March – In the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, accompanied by false propaganda and disinformation, we are publishing a freely available Ukrainian story in English, German and Czech from our international educational reader Lest We Forget…
