Perestroika | Memory of Nations

Perestroika - was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

Arif Yunus in 2022

Arif Yunus

* 1955

Human Rights Defender, Historian, Azerbaijan, Dissident

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Leyla as a candidate for the Social Democratic Party to the Parliament of Azerbaijan, September 1990

Leyla Yunus

* 1955

Human Rights Defender, Azerbaijan, Dissident, Historian

Perestroika, First Nagorno-Karabakh War, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Liana Zhigunova in the late 80s

Liana Zhigunova

* 1962

Emigrants from Russia, Emigrant

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Perestroika, 1994 - 1996 - First Chechen war

Yevgeniy Zhovtis, Prague, 2022

Yevgeniy Zhovtis Евгений Жовтис

* 1955

Dissident, Kazakhstan, Human Rights Defender

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Liana Yelchaninova during the interview, 2024

Ліана Єльчанінова Liana Yelchaninova

* 1969

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, Perestroika, The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014) and 1 more anniversaries

Volodymyr Yeshkiliev during the interview, 2024

Володимир Єшкілєв Volodymyr Yeshkiliev

* 1965

Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine, Writer, University professor, A cultural celebrity

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Perestroika, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991, Ukraine in 1990-s. and 2 more anniversaries

While serving in the army

Сергій Ізотов Serhii Izotov

* 1955

Ukraine, Artists

Ukraine in 1990-s., Perestroika, The Revival of Ukrainian national culture 1989 - 1991, The Orange Revolution of 2004, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014) and 2 more anniversaries

Александр Морозов 2022

Mgr. Alexander Morozov Александр Морозов

* 1959

Russia, Emigrants from Russia, Emigrant, Historian, Journalist and 1 more categories

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014), 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Oleksandr Babich during the interview, 2023

Олександр Бабіч Oleksandr Babich

* 1971

Civic activism in Ukraine, Ukraine, Historian

"Ukraine without Kuchma" protests (15.12.2000 – 9.3.2001), 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Perestroika and 4 more anniversaries

Amet Bekir at the Berestechko Festival, 2016

Амет Бекір Amet Bekir

* 1973

Ukraine, Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, National minorities, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Civic activism in Ukraine

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014), The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014), 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

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