INTERVIEW. The historian Nicolas Werth evokes the considerable importance of the work of the Russian association, which the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution.
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Dn their campaign against non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Russian authorities are attacking an emblem: the organization Memorial, committed to the defense of human rights and founded in 1989 by Soviet dissidents, including the Nobel laureate of peace Andrei Sakharov. On December 28, the Russian Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of this NGO, recognized around the world for its work on the Stalinist period and the gulag.
The government accuses the Russian association of having violated the law on “foreign agents” which forces it to mention this qualifier on all its publications. A law that has become especially very convenient to punish institutions or the media that disturb. Another accusation: the apology of “extremism and terrorism” which is …
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