While Vladimir Putin launched the war against Ukraine, Russian justice liquidated Memorial, the association which for 35 years had carried out both historical work exposing the crimes of communism and which on a daily basis denounced attacks on human rights. man under Putinian power. Faced with Vladimir Putin who is rewriting history, Memorial was doomed to disappear. In Memorial facing Russian oppression – The fight for truth (Plein Jour editions), Etienne Bouche pays tribute to the activists of this association who paid a high price for their obstinacy in writing erased Russian memory to better illuminate contemporary Russia. Etienne Bouche lived in Moscow from 2013 to 2020 where he was RFI’s correspondent.
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“Memorial in the face of Russian oppression – The fight for truth”, by Etienne Bouche
