Senior Program Associate Izabella Tabarovzky talks about the Russian organization Memorial, which was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

In this roundtable, the Kennan Institute discussed what the destruction of Memorial will mean for the future of Russia with Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of "Memorial" Historical, Educational and Human Rights Society; Daniil Beilinson, co-founder of OVD-Info; Grigory Vaypan, independent human rights lawyer and scholar; Kathleen Smith, Professor of Teaching at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.; and Kennan Senior Advisor Sergey Parkhomenko.

The Kennan Institute hosted a conversation about the latest developments at Memorial, saw photos from its new exhibit on women at the gulag, heard the stories behind them, and discussed Memorial’s future with speakers Irina Scherbakova, Director of the Memorial Oral History Center; Elena Zhemkova, Executive Director of "Memorial" Historical, Educational and Human Rights Society; Steven Barnes, Associate Professor of Russian and European History at George Mason University.

Shortlisted for an Academy Award in the documentary category, “Women of the Gulag” tells the compelling and tragic stories of six women—possibly, the last survivors—who found themselves caught up in Stalin’s massive slave labor machine. The screening was followed by a discussion with filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya and former Galina Starovoitova Fellow Elena Racheva.