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Articles with tag "Memory Politics"

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With ‘Memory Remains,’ Curator Vladimir Shalamov Is Preserving the History the Kremlin Wants to Erase

The third edition of Artists Against the Kremlin combines contemporary art, archives and documentary material to resist the manipulation of memory.
opinion Arshak Makichyan

Russia Is Redefining Genocide for Political Purposes

Moscow is cynically exploiting ignorance about the legal meaning of genocide to expand repressions at home and play the victim abroad.
6 Min read
opinion Polly Jones

Erasing Magadan's Gulag Past Enables Today's Violence

The city was built by forced labor and lay at the heart of one of the largest and deadliest settlements. Authorities want to silence that fact.
6 Min read

How Russia Weaponizes History for the Ukraine War

Researcher Jade McGlynn joins us to discuss and deconstruct the mechanics and motives behind Russia's weaponization of history.
1 Min read

Russians Remember Stalin’s Victims Amid Crackdown on Dissent

Russians commemorated the victims of Stalinist terror on Sunday by taking part in the Returning the Names event.
3 Min read
opinion Polly Jones

The Cult of the Red Terror Executioner Lives On

In a country headed by a former KGB agent, it is unsurprising that a sanitized image of the founder of the brutal Soviet Secret Police is thriving.
5 Min read
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