Memorial International

  • Recently, Russia’s Supreme Court ordered the closure of Memorial International, one of the country’s most prominent and oldest human rights organisations.
  • It was founded in 1992 in Moscow.
  • It is a non-commercial organisation studying political repressions in the erstwhile USSR and in present-day Russia and promoting moral and legal rehabilitation of persons subjected to political repressions.
  • It aims to promote development of civil society and democratic state with the rule of law excluding the possibility of return to totalitarianism.
  • Its predecessor, Moscow Initiative Group Memorial, emerged in 1987 and gave rise to a number of regional organisations and ....
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