Here's what we know about the history of Russia's most prominent rights group and its work over the past 35 years:- What does Memorial do? Its first chairman was the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov and the group established the largest publicly available database on Gulag victims. It has compiled a list of hundreds of political prisoners in modern Russia, among them critics of Putin and opponents of the Ukraine war. - Banned in Russia -As Russia's most prominent human rights group, it has repeatedly found itself in the government's crosshairs. Russia declared the international arm of Memorial an "undesirable organisation" in February -- outlawing Russians from working with or donating to the group.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha April 09, 2026 08:07 UTC