The Russian State Duma of the third convocation. The plenary session of May 14, 2003. From left: Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Dmitry Rogozin, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee and Presidential Representative for the Kaliningrad Region, during a meeting with journalists.14.05.2003#2793424
The second convocation of the State Duma. Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky.24.08.1998#3158857
The roundtable discussion, The Chechen Crisis: Causes and Consequences, held at Russia's RIA Novosti international information agency, now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, and attended by Russian and foreign journalists. From left: RIA Novosti board chairman Vladimir Markov, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, and RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Kovalyov speak to journalists.15.03.1995#6326726
The roundtable discussion, The Chechen Crisis: Causes and Consequences, held at Russia's RIA Novosti international information agency, now Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency, and attended by Russian and foreign journalists. From left: RIA Novosti board chairman Vladimir Markov, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, and RIA Novosti political commentator Vladimir Kovalyov speak to journalists.15.03.1995#6326725
A granite monument slab at the Butovo execution facility where victims of Stalin-era repressions were executed and buried. Accrding to archive and investigation records, over 20,000 people were executed here from the 1930s until the 1950s.18.09.1993#6295693
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240374
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240373
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240512
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240511
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240510
Ukraine. Installing an Orthodox Christian cross in Babiy Yar where between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed in 1941.01.02.1992#8240504
Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR. September 29-October 6, 1991. A memorial ceremony of laying wreaths at the Menorah sacred candelabrum during a memorial week to commemorate the Babiy Yar tragedy. In 1941, between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed there.29.09.1991#8232672
Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR. September 28-October 6, 1991. A memorial ceremony of laying wreaths at the Menorah sacred candelabrum during a memorial week to commemorate the Babiy Yar tragedy. In 1941, between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed there. Photo: A man taking part in the ceremony holds a photo of executed victims.29.09.1991#8232670
Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR. September 29-October 6, 1991. A memorial ceremony of laying wreaths at the Menorah sacred candelabrum during a memorial week to commemorate the Babiy Yar tragedy.29.09.1991#8232669
Kiev, the Ukrainian SSR. September 29-October 6, 1991. A memorial ceremony of laying wreaths at the Menorah sacred candelabrum during a memorial week to commemorate the Babiy Yar tragedy. In 1941, between 33,000 and 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Roma and Soviet prisoners of war were executed there. Photo: A man taking part in the ceremony holds a photo of executed victims.29.09.1991#8232668
Archives of the State Security Committee (KGB) of the USSR. Photo: Krutoovrazhny town in Omsk. During Stalin-era purges, arrested people were executed and buried there.01.02.1991#8227425
Human rights activist, priest Gleb Yakunin (center of the second row) performing a service for the victims of the Stalinist political repressions at a stone from the then Solovetsky special-purpose camp (the Solovetsky Monastery) set up in front of the KGB headquarters in Lubyanskaya Square, Moscow, on October 30, 1990.30.10.1990#749019
Muscovites buy a special issue of the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper. All sales profit was donated to the Memorial society (shut down in 2022) established to investigate political repressions in the Soviet Union.27.11.1988#8317895
Muscovites buy a special issue of the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper. All sales profit was donated to the Memorial society (shut down in 2022) established to investigate political repressions in the Soviet Union.27.11.1988#8317894
Week of Conscience, an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of political terror, which was organized by the Ogonyok magazine and the Memorial society (liquidated in 2022), November 19-26, 1988. The project of the monument to the victims of Stalinist repressions.19.11.1988#8317092
Week of Conscience, an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of political terror, which was organized by the Ogonyok magazine and the Memorial society (liquidated in 2022), November 19-26, 1988. A fundraising to create a memorial for the victims of Stalin repressions.19.11.1988#8317091
Week of Conscience, an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of political terror, which was organized by the Ogonyok magazine and the Memorial society (liquidated in 2022), November 19-26, 1988. A model of the memorial for the victims of Stalin repressions.19.11.1988#8317090
Meeting of the organizing committee of the Memorial Society (now the Russian Society for the Perpetuation of the Memory of Victims of Political Repression). From left: postgraduate student from the All-Union Correspondence Institute of the Food Industry (now the Moscow State University of Technologies and Management) Yelena Zhemkova, physicist and human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, architects Yury Platonov and Vyacheslav Glazychev during a meeting.25.08.1988#6548711
A meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022). Yury Samodurov, publicist and public figure, organizer of the first activist group for eternalizing the memory of victims of political repression, makes a speech.25.08.1988#8304772
Playwright Mikhail Shatrov (real name Marshak) and Chief Director of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater Mark Zakharov, left to right, at a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022).25.08.1988#8304771
Soviet physicist and human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, third left, with participants in a meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022).25.08.1988#8304770
A meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Memorial society (dissolved on February 28, 2022). Yelena Zhemkova, postgraduate researcher of the All-Union Distance Learning Institute of Food Industry (now Moscow State University of Technology and Management), physicist and human rights activist Lev Ponomaryov, architects Yury Platonov and Vyacheslav Glazychev, left to right.25.08.1988#8304769
Meeting of the initiative group For perpetuating the memory of victims of political repression (later Memorial). Discussion of a memorial to victims of Stalinism.30.07.1988#6587223
Civil activist, public figure, PhD in Geology and Mineralogy and organizer of the first initiative group, Yury Samodurov speaks at a meeting of the initiative group For perpetuating the memory of victims of political repression (later Memorial).30.07.1988#6587222
From left: playwright Mikhail Shatrov (born Marshak) and chief director of the Moscow Lenin Komsomol Theater Mark Zakharov at a meeting of the Memorial Society (now the All-Russian Society for Perpetuating the Memory of Victims of Political Repression).15.06.1988#6548845
Soviet film director and screenwriter Elem Klimov at a meeting of the Memorial Society (now the All-Russian Society for Perpetuating the Memory of Victims of Political Repression).15.06.1988#6548717
A meeting of Memorial society (now the Russian Society for the Perpetuation of the Memory of Victims of Political Repression). Remarks by Belarusian writer and screenwriter Ales Adamovich.15.06.1988#6548716
Andrei Sakharov, Soviet theoretical physicist, member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, public figure and human rights activist (front row, center) at a meeting of the Memorial Society (now the All-Russian Society for the Perpetuation of the Memory of Victims of Political Repression).15.06.1988#6548715
A meeting of Memorial society (now the Russian Society for the Perpetuation of the Memory of Victims of Political Repression). A minute of silence to commemorate the victims.15.06.1988#6548714
International seminar "Objective information for peace and mutual understanding" in Rostov-on-Don. Participants lay flowers at the eternal flame of the Zmievskaya Balka Memorial for soldiers and victims of the Great Patriotic War.03.06.1988#6564746
A rally in Kurapaty, Byelorussian SSR, where mass graves of victims of 1937-1941 political repression were discovered. Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Branch of the Soviet Cultural Foundation, member of the State Commission for the Investigation of Soviet Crimes in Kurapaty, writer Ivan Chigrinov speaking.01.06.1988#6573574
Moscow residents are seen at Vnukovo Airport greeting US President Ronald Reagan, who arrived in the USSR for an official visit (May 29-June 2, 1988).29.05.1988#8353649
Head of the political observers’ team at Novosti Press Agency (currently Rossiya Segodnya) Spartak Beglov during a roundtable discussion on Soviet-Japanese relations.11.12.1986#5729431
Completion of talks on cooperation between the "Novosti" Press Agency (APN) and the "Gamma" Photo Agency (France) held in the APN headquarters, Moscow. 1983.01.12.1983#855550
Lithuanian SSR. Paneriai Memorial. During World War II, about 70,000 Jews were shot here by the Nazis, and over 29,000 people of other nationalities, including Russians, Lithuanians, Poles, and Gypsies, were also buried there.01.07.1969#8743946
The Second All-Union Conference of Novosti Press Agency Founding Organizations. Boris Burkov, Novosti Press Agency First Board Chairman, makes a report on the agency activities.01.06.1967#8724604
Former prisoners of concentration camp in Baby Yar, from left: Zakhar Trubakov, David Budnik and Yakov Kaper.01.11.1966#693904
The Grieving Mother monument in the town of Rudnya in the Smolensk Region. The monument, made by sculptor Lev Kerbel and architect Vitaly Datyuk, was unveiled in 1965 to commemorate about 1,500 Jews executed by Nazi occupants in Rudnya in 1942-1943.09.09.1965#6005067
The Grieving Mother monument in the town of Rudnya in the Smolensk Region. The monument, made by sculptor Lev Kerbel, left, and architect Vitaly Datyuk, right, was unveiled in 1965 to commemorate about 1,500 Jews executed by Nazi occupants in Rudnya in 1942-1943.09.09.1965#6005065
The Grieving Mother monument in the town of Rudnya in the Smolensk Region. The monument, made by sculptor Lev Kerbel and architect Vitaly Datyuk, was unveiled in 1965 to commemorate about 1,500 Jews executed by Nazi occupants in Rudnya in 1942-1943.09.09.1965#6005064
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Funeral of the prisoners liberated by the Red Army from the Auschwitz concentration camp.01.02.1945#5686097
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). An emergency expert commission inspects gallows in the Auschwitz concentration camp.28.01.1945#5686093
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Electrocuted barbed wire fence in the Auschwitz concentration camp.27.01.1945#5686095
Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Bodies of civilians killed by Nazi Germans near the city of Zolochiv (Lviv Region).10.07.1941#5686027
