17 June 2024
Sandarmokh in 2024: Travel Notes
Russian authorities have been methodically trying to undo the efforts to preserve the memory of mass executions in Sandarmokh, Karelia, during the Great Terror. Our volunteer reports on her recent trip there.
As Kharkiv is being fiercely shelled by the Russian army, a member of the Kharkiv Human Rights Defense Group, Iryna Skachko, describes the history of the “Word” (Slovo) House . This apartment building was built in Kharkiv in the 1920s to house Ukrainian writers, most of whom would later be executed or sent to camps, in a matter of years.