The list of persons recognized as political prisoners by Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Center on the basis of international human rights criteria was first published on October 30, 2013. It is published here as it stands on January 22, 2014, with the latest additions.
On August 25, 1968, seven people came out into Moscow’s Red Square to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia in what became one of the boldest acts of political defiance in the Soviet Union. For the 45th anniversary of this historic event, the Institute of Modern Russia has sponsored the translation and English-language production of They Chose Freedom, a documentary film by Vladimir Kara-Murza that tells the story of dissent in the Soviet Union from the 1950s to the 1990s.
On May 1, the Institute of Modern Russia and the Herzen Foundation launched a new online magazine, The Interpreter. Michael Weiss, The Interpreter’s editor-in-chief, presents his new publication.
Our newsletter delivers a digest of analytical articles and op-eds published on our website, along with the latest updates on the IMR activities on a monthly basis.