An open letter to President Medvedev
08 Dec 2008
Memorial’s historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world’s leading academics
Dmitrii Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation
Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St Petersburg
Vladimir Lukin, Russian Federal Ombudsman for Human Rights
Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs
Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Yuriy Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russian Federation
Vladimir Startsev, Public Prosecutor of Leningrad region,
5 December 2008
We, the 259 signatories of this letter, members of the worldwide scholarly community, wish to express our deep concern at the actions of members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of St Petersburg on 4 December 2008 during a raid of the premises of the Research and Information Centre Memorial in St Petersburg, ul. Rubinshteina 23-105, which resulted in the confiscation of the Centre’s electronic archive.
RIC Memorial is renowned for its research into the history of repression under Stalin, the phenomenon of the Gulag and unofficial movements of the 1950s-1980s in the USSR. The staff of RIC Memorial helped to establish the fate of many thousands of people, citizens of the USSR and other countries, who fell victim to the repressions during the 1930s-1950s. Many of us know members of RIC Memorial’s staff in person or have used the organisation’s archive.
A total of eleven hard drives were confiscated. These drives hold several databases containing: biographical information on more than 50,000 victims of Stalinist repression; the results of the search for execution and burial sites of victims of repression (several hundred sites described or photographed); the photo collection (over 10,000 photographs) and accompanying textual material of the ‘Virtual Gulag Museum’, which is a unique online source linking more than one hundred local Russian museums. Also confiscated were the database to the oral history archive and an electronic collection of photographs, including scans of historic materials from private archives. What is more, the prosecutors took a hard drive and documents belonging to the art historian Aleksandr Margolis, a member of Memorial and the director of the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad, who is known for his commitment to the preservation of St Petersburg’s historic architecture.
The scholarly community fears the loss of a unique collection, which has been amassed over the course of more than twenty years of dedicated research. This collection is of priceless value for future generations of researchers in both Russia and the wider world and must not be compromised or destroyed.
We are dismayed at the way the results of scholarly research and researchers are being treated by the authorities of St Petersburg and urge you to take action to ensure the electronic archive is immediately returned to its rightful owners.
Yours sincerely,
Orlando Figes, FRSL
Professor of History
Birkbeck College
University of London
Catriona Kelly FBA
Professor of Russian,
Director, European Humanities Research Centre
University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Mary McAuley
University of Oxford, UK
Laura Engelstein,
Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History,
Department Chair, Department of History
Yale University, USA
Beth Holmgren
President, AAASS (2008)
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Duke University, USA
Sheila Fitzpatrick, D. Phil. (Oxon.),
Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History,
University of Chicago, USA
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
William G. Rosenberg,
Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History,
University of Michigan, USA
Past President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studes
Istvan Rev
Professor of History, Central European University
Director, Open Society Archives
Malcolm V. Jones BA PhD,
Emeritus Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
University of Nottingham, UK
Caroline Humphrey FBA
Professor of Asian Anthropology
Fellow of Kings College,
University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Franklin
Professor of Slavonic Studies,
University of Cambridge,
Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexandra Hrycak
President, American Association for Ukrainian Studies
Chair of the Department of Sociology,
Reed College (Portland, USA)
Sergei Bogatyrev,
Senior Lecturer in Early Russian History
Director, Centre for Russian Studies
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
Antony Beevor FRSL
Visiting Professor
Birkbeck College, UK
Anne Applebaum,
Author of Gulag: A History,
Winner of 2004 Pulitzer prize
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
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Lecturer in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literature
University of Toronto, Canada
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Professor Emeritus, University of Manchester,
President of ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies)
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Associate Professor and Chair,
Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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Duke University, USA
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Professor Emeritus of Russian,
University of Oxford, UK
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Professor Emeritus of Russian,
University of British Columbia, USA
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DPhil candidate in Russian literature
University of Oxford, UK
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Emeritus Professor of Russian History
University College London, UK
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University College London, UK
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Professor
Editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
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Professor of History
University of Melbourne
Australia
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Yale University, USA
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Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
Russian Department
SSEES/UCL, UK
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John Moores University
Liverpool, UK
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
Università di Genova, Italy
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Professor of Russian Literature
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Associate Professor in Russian Studies
University of Nottingham, UK
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Associate Professor of Contemporary History
Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
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Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham, UK
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Professor of Russian Literature,
University of Tartu, Estonia,
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Associate Professor in Contemporary History,
University of Tartu, Estonia
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Assistant Professor of Russian
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
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Professor (retired)
University of Manitoba, Canada
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National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine)
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Professor, Central European University,
Budapest
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Professor of Russian
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University of Sheffield
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University of Alberta, Canada
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Fairfax, VA
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Humboldt University Berlin
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Oxford University.
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GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
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BSc Cognitive Science,
Fellow of the German National
Academic Foundation.
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University of Manchester
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Emeritus Prof. of Russian
American University, Washington, DC
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Robert A. Rothstein
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Centre for Russian and East European Studies
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
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Universite de Montreal, Canada
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Honorary Professor, University of Perm,
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Tutor in Literature, Oxford University
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Lecturer in Russian
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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European University of St Petersburg
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Professor, Russian Studies
University of Arizona
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Assistant Professor of History
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Duke University, USA
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Clare College, Cambridge
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University of Cambridge, UK
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Slavonic Department
University of Cambridge, UK
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London, UK
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Senior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
SSEES/UCL
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Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
National University of ‘ Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ‘
Kyiv , Ukraine
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Lecturer, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield
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Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Barnard College, Columbia University, NY, USA
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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Rutgers University, USA
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University of Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
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Rutgers University-Newark, USA
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The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA
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PhD Slavic Languages and Literatures,
UC Berkeley, USA
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Christ Church, Oxford
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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University of London, UK
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University of Alberta, Canada
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University of Manchester, UK
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Stanford University
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St. Petersburg Institute of history,
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Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities
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Columbia University
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
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University of Derby,
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University College, London
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University of Leiden
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Willamette University
Salem, Oregon, USA
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the University of Michigan
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University of Pennsylvania
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
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Boston College
Chestnut Hill, USA
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Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
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Wellesley College
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
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PhD candidate
University College London
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Professor of Slavic
University of Pittsburgh
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Emmanuel College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Department and International Studies Program
Miami University
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University of Sheffield
Andreas Umland, M. Phil. (Oxford), Dr. phil. (FU Berlin),
Research Fellow at The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt,
Bavaria, Germany
Alexander Yanov,
Prof. of Russian history,
City University of New York
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Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
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Associate Professor of Slavic
Department of Modern Languages
Florida State University, USA
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Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
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Senior Lecturer
Programme in Art History and Theory
Department of History,
University of Otago
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Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature,
University of California, Berkeley
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Chair, Russian and East European Studies
Brandeis University
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Senior Researcher,
Deparment of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies,
University of Joensuu, Finland.
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Senior Lecturer
Department of English,
University of Otago, New Zealand
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Honorary Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Open University, England
Dr. Stefan Rohdewald
Lehrstuhl fur Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Osteuropas und seiner Kulturen
Universitaet Passau
Stephen M. Norris
Associate Professor of History
Director of Film Studies
Miami University
Michael Khodarkovsky
Professor of History
Member of the Board of Directors of the American Slavic Association (AAASS)
Lucyna Gebert,
Professor of Slavic Linguistics,
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’,
Italy
Anthony Anemone
Chair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
The New School, NY, USA
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Associate Professor of Government and International Relations
Clark University
Worcester, MA, USA
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Telegraphenberg A62, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Associate Professor Program Director
Program in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
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PhD student, City University London
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Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Prof. Dr. Rainer Kind
Professor at Free University of Berlin
Fellow of American Geophysical Union
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Assistant Professor of Russian,
Miami University, UK
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University of Waterloo, Canada
President, Canadian Association of Slavists
President, Belarusan Institute of Arts & Sciences, Canada (BINiM)
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University of Helsinki, Finland
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Wolfson College
University of Oxford
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Department of History
Swansea University, UK
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Beacon for Wales Office
Public Relations and Communications Division
Cardiff University
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‘Never Again’ Association and Collegium Civitas,
Warsaw
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NEH Collaborative Research Grant, Spring 2009
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Associate Dean of Alumni Education
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Columbia University
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Projektleiterin Osteuropa
Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Vermögenskultur
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien, Austria;
Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Prof. John Jaworsky
Department of Political Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Professor Terry Cox, BA PhD
Professor of Central and East European Studies
President of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
Department of Central and East European Studies
University of Glasgow
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M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.),
University Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford
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King’s College London
Dr. Martha Merritt
Associate Dean for International Education
The University of Chicago
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Russian translator
Bohdan Rubchak
Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ukrainian President’s medal of the third degree for contributions to Ukrainian culture in the United Sates
Stefanie Schiffer, MA,
Executive Director European Exchange, Berlin
Member of Board ‘Human Rights in Belarus’, Berlin
Martha W. Hickey
Director of International Studies, Portland State University
Assoc. Prof. of Russian
Felix Ackermann PhD,
Director of the support programme ‘Geschichtswerkstatt Europa’,
Institute for applied history, Frankfurt (Oder)
David Gadsby
Assistant Director
Center for Heritage Resource Studies
University of Maryland
Carol Apollonio
Associate Professor of the Practice of Russian
Duke University
Dr. Joseph Peschio
Assistant Professor of Russian
Coordinator, Slavic Languages Program
Chair, Russian and East European Studies Certificate Program
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Catherine Wanner
Associate Professor
of History and Anthropology
108 Weaver Building
The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc
Associate Professor
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies [and]
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta, Canada
Roman Utkin, M.A.
Independent scholar, Connecticut, USA.
Karen Dawisha
Director, Havighurst Center for Russian and East European Studies
Miami University
Oxford Ohio USA
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Abt. Bestandsaufbau/Erschließung
Redaktion ZfBB und BFB
Ludwigstraße 16
D-80539 München
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University of London
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Collegium for Advanced Studies (Finland)
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Senior Lecturer in Russian
Head of Russian
Department of Modern Languages
University of Exeter
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Lady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
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Lecturer, Jewish History and Culture in the Slavic Countries, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Christopher Lash, PhD candidate in History
Manchester University, UK
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Information Officer, OSA Archivum,
Budapest, Hungary
Robert Romanchuk, PhD
Associate Professor of Slavic
Department of Modern Languages
Florida State University, USA
Dr. Patty A. Gray,
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Associate Professor, University of Vermont, USA
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Sustainable Environmental Management
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Director, Index on Censorship
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Alexander J. Motyl,
Professor of Political Science
Rutgers University-Newark, USA
Catherine Crowther
Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP): Chair of Training Committee International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP): Convener of training programme in analytical psychology in Russia and Liaison Officer for St Petersburg Developing Group
Dr. Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University
Dr Stephanie Palmer
Lecturer in Law
University of Cambridge
Maureen Tighe-Brown, M.A., M.S.N.
Doctoral candidate in European history
Department of History,
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Modern Languages & Cultural Studies
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Emily Johnson
Associate Professor
Dept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
University of Oklahoma
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Independent Scholar
Del Mar, CA, USA
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Research Director
Centre National de la
Recherches Scientifique
Paris
Ronald D. LeBlanc
Professor of Russian and Humanities
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Murkland Hall
University of New Hampshire
Vladimir Padunov
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Director, Film Studies Program
University of Pittsburgh
Anne Lounsbery,
Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Director of Graduate Study, New York University
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Professor and Chair
University of Kiril i Metodi, Skopje, Macedonia
Jaroslav Rozumnyj Ph.D.
Professor (retired)
University of Manitoba, Canada
Honorary Professor
National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine)
Matthew Evangelista
Professor and Chair
Department of Government
Cornell University
James Richter
Professor of Politics
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
Martin Dewhirst,
Honorary Research Fellow,
Department of Slavonic Studies,
University of Glasgow.
Inna Shtakser,
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Dalhousie University, Canada
Alexa von Winning,
Student, University of Tübingen
Jan Plamper, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Lentzeallee 94
14195 Berlin, Germany
Helen Petrovsky
Senior research associate,
Institute of Philosophy,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Dr Neil Robinson,
Senior Lecturer in Politics,
Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Ireland
Giovanna Brogi
Professor
University of Milan
Julie Draskoczy
MA, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Richard Buchner,
Zeithistoriker, D 14165 BERLIN
Rossen Djagalov,
PhD candidate, Yale University
Alberto Masoero
Professor of Russian History
University of Venice
Prof. Dr. Karsten Brüggemann
Tallinn University
Institute of History
Prof. Iryna Bondarevska,
Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
National University of ‘ Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ‘
Kyiv, Ukraine
Dr. Olga Meerson
Associate Professor of Russian
Georgetown University
Washington, DC
Dr. Jenny Kaminer
Lecturer, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
University of Sheffield
Professor Natalia Pervukhina-Kamyshnikova
Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Yulia Spytska
MA International Relations Research Student
University of Essex, UK
Philippe Frison,
Strasbourg (France), translator.
Lyudmyla Volynets
Free University of Berlin
Petra Hroch,
University of Alberta, Canada.
Professor Frances Millard,
Department of Government,
University of Essex
Dmitrii Kozlov
Pomorskii gosudarstvennyi universitet
Archangelsk, Russia
Flora Roberts,
University of Chicago
Kari Kaunismaa, MSS
Soiskatel doktorskoi stupen
Paimio, Finland
Dr Stefanie Ortmann,
London School of Economics
Denis Kosygin,
Mathematician,
New York University, USA
Lara Weibgen
Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Lauren Kaminsky
Associate Faculty, New York University
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow
Mariana Ivanova Markova
PhC Anthropology Department
University of Washington
Andrew Janco,
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
Dr. Gail Faurschou
Department of Sociology
University of Alberta,
Canada
Olga Livshin
M.A., Ph.D. Candidate,
University of Alaska Anchorage
Bohdan Rubchak
Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
University of Illinois at Chicago
Julia Herzberg, Doctoral Student, Department of History at Bielefeld
University (Germany)
Vera Shibanova
Jacob-Burckhardtstr. 13
78464 Konstanz
Benjamin H. Loring
Postdoctoral Fellow in Central Asian Affairs
Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Svitlana Krys,
PhD Candidate, University of Alberta, Canada.
Yulia Spytska
MA International Relations Research Student
University of Essex
Martin Beisswenger
PhD Candidate
Department of History
University of Notre Dame
USA
Margaret Samu
Ph.D. Candidate in Art History
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lisa Min
UT Austin
Benjamin J. Beresford, MA
Bryn Mawr College
Martin Malek
Political scientist
Vienna, Austria
Dr. Lorenz Kaehler, M.A.
Germany
Dr. Richard Buchner (Zeithistoriker)
14165 Berlin, Camphausenstraße 44 D.
Germany
Steven A. Barnes, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History,
Project Director and Lead Historian
George Mason University, VA, USA
Michael J. Mikos,
Professor of Slavic Languages,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Simon Ertz, М.А.,
Visiting Fellow, Dept. of History, Moscow State University
Friederike Otto
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ralph Lindheim
Professor Emeritus
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
Sergei Kan
Professor of Anthroppology
Dartmouth College
Arnold McMillin
Emeritus Professor,
London University
Dina Gusejnova
PhD Candidate in History
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Tony Swift,
Senior Lecturer in History,
University of Essex
Dr Olga Tutubalina
Scott Polar Research Institute
Senior Researcher
Laboratory of Aerospace Methods,
Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University
Mark L. von Hagen
Professor and Chair
Department of History
Arizona State University
Dr Alexander Etkind
Reader in Russian Litarture and Cultural History
Fellow of King’s College
Cambridge University
Daniel G. Prior
Assistant Professor, History
Executive Director, Central Eurasian Studies Society
Miami University
Bettina Nir-Vered
M.A. – Germany
Rebecca Manley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
Dr. Susanne Scholl
Austria
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JUstice may be blinf=d but ever so just.
Dr. Mahmoud A. Melehy
Professor Emeritus
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA
Glucksmann André
I want , if you agreed, to add my signature.
André Glucksmann, Philosophe, France
Jan Sokol
Please, add my signature to the list. I am a former Czech dissident, philosopher and former Minister of Education of the Czech Republic, now as Senior fellow at Harvard Divinity School.
Anastasia Kayiatos
Anastasia Kayiatos
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
UC Berkeley
Ihor Kutash
Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies,
Université de Sherbrooke, Université St. Paul (Ottawa)
St. Andrew’s College (Winnipeg).
Magdalena Hadala
Magdalena Hadala
Ruda Slaska, Poland
Kirsty McCluskey
Translator and literature/history blogger.
Maria Poerzgen
Please add my signature to the list.
Mascha Poerzgen
Dipl.Stagedirector
Germany
Paul van der Woerd
Translator, copywriter, editor
The Hague region, Netherlands
I do endorse this initiative wholeheartedly.
H. Boland Ph.D.
I support Orlando Gifes’ letter to the russian president.
H. Boland Ph.D.
I support Orlando Figes’ letter to the russian president.
Ad van de Staaij
Adam van de Staaij
Historian
Den Haag, Netherlands
Caoimhe McCutcheon
Please add my signature to the list.
Igor Mokin
Editor
Inostrannaya Literatura (Foreign Literature) monthly
Moscow
Rudi Brückner
If a Nation not want to look at the past than
this Nation will not have a moral future.
Nancy Richards
I request that the electronic archives be returned to the Research and Information Center Memorial in St. Petersburg. Scholarship and truth are at stake here.
Leslie Wilson
Dr. Leslie Wilson MA, Ph.D
Research Associate
Near Eastern Languages & Civilization
Yale University
Erik van Ree
University of Amsterdam
Peter Romijn
Head of Research, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and History Department, University of Anmsterdam
Richard Davies
Archivist, Leeds Russian Archive, University of Leeds
Tom Caljouw
I strongly support the open letter to President Medvedev etc.
Frank Mercelis
Actor/Musician
Antwerp, Belgium
Malte Griesse
Specialist in Russian history
University of Bielefeld / Centre Marc Bloch Berlin
I would like to add my signature to the list and vividly express my support of the open letter to Dmitrii Medvedev, Valentina Madvienko, etc.
Danae Papastamatis
I wish to add my signature to the above letter.
Danae Papastamatis, MA Cantab.
Danae Papastamatis
I wish to add my signature to the above letter.
D.P. MA Cantab
Dr. Peter Deutschmann
Dept. of Slavic Studies, Graz, Austria
Drew Foxall, BSc MSc
Drew Foxall BSc MSc
DPhil Candidate
University of Oxford
Fabio Limido
to hide the past is create a worst future
Dr. Jaap Talsma
Dept of History
University of Amsterdam
Konstantin Bogdanov
Dr. Konstantin Bogdanov, Institute for Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg; Universitaet Konstanz
Matteo Cazzulani - President Association ANNAVIVA
I support the letter!
claudia zonghetti
translator, Italy
Natalia Donig
Department of History and Sociology
University of Konstanz
Germany
Gert Terny
visiting professor Higher Institute for Translators and Interpreters, Antwerp University Belgium, International Institute of Performing Arts Paris, Director European Lessac Centre
Manfred Zeller
M.A.
PHD Candidate
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg
Bohdan Klid
Bohdan Klid
Assistant Director and Research Scholar
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
University of Alberta
Please add my signature to the letter.
Dr. Julia Gerasimova
I wish to add my signature to this letter
Dr Joop de Kort
Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures and Russia Studies, Leiden University
Markus Meckel, MP
Chairman of the Board
Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
Germany
Samantha Sherry
PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh
Chiara Ceolin
Photojournalist, Turin, Italy
Helen Rappaport
A chilling, Stalinist act. This precious and ireplaceable archive must not be lost.
Greet Vanhassel
I’d like to give my support to Dr. Figes’ letter.
Greet Vanhassel
Head of Russian Department,
Artesis University Collega Antwerpen (Belgium)
Conference and public services interpreter
Sandro Archetti
Lasciate vivere Memorial
Massimo Maurizio
Professor of Russian language
University of Turin, Italy
Simone Guagnelli
Co-Editor of the electronic journal eSamizdat [www.esamizdat.it], review dedicated to Slavic Culture
Kathleen E. Smith
I add my voice to support Dr. Figes letter. Memorial is an invaluable organization deserving our wholehearted support.
Valentina Parisi
Independent scholar, translator
Veerle Duflou
Researcher
University College of Translation Studies
Ghent - BELGIUM
I give my wholehearted support to prof. Figes’ initiative for the protection of Memorial’s invaluable research data.
Karen Rondestvedt
Karen Rondestvedt, Ph.D.
Curator for Slavic & East European Collections
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004 USA
Paolo Morawski
YES, I want to sign the letter for Memorial,
Paolo Morawski
Historian
Co-Director “PL.IT” (Italian Annual Review of Polish Matters)
De Backer Bernard
Je m’associe totalement à cette initiative.
Bernard De Backer
Sociologue et chercheur
Membre du comité des rédaction de la Revue nouvelle (Bruxelles, Belgique)
Andreas Riedl
Andreas Riedl,
Economist, University of Augsburg
Emily Van Buskirk
Emily Van Buskirk, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
drs. A.S. Stoffel
translator, Amsterdam
Dr. Vera Ammer, M. A.
Please add my signature to the list.
Marco Peiretti
freedom and peace all around the world!!!
Madlena Kowar
Universität Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Vera Ammer, M. A.
Please add my signature to the list
Claudia Haager, Dipl. Psych.
University of Freiburg, Germany
Coaching and career counselling of international students
supporting strongly
Andrea Gullotta
Andrea Gullotta
PhD Student of Slavic Literature
University of Padua
Italy
I’m a collaborator of St. Petersburg Memorial, in Italy we’re making a subscription as well, we’re up to more than 60 names: you can read it in the main page of memorial-italia. I invite all the italians in this list to join the appeal by writing an email to: andrea.gullotta@unipd.it
Mihai Popa
Dear mister Figes,
Here my support for your letter.
Mihai Popa
Historisch Café
Amsterdam Holland
Antony Polonsky
I support this petition
Dmitry Litvinov
lecturer
Russian State University for the Humanities
Vivika Lemke
Ministry of Justice, Employment and European Affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Russia Cooperation
Bogumil Jewsiewicki
I add my voice to support the letter.
Sarah Gormady
Sarah Gormady
University of New Hampshire
I wish to add my name to the signatures above.
david hellier
Please add my signature to the list. I am Deputy Editor of CityAM, a London-based free financial newspaper.
Stephan Stach
Simon-Dubnow-Institute Leipzig
Pia Pera
I wish to sign the above petition, shocked at this dreadful attack on research and freedom of information, and in the hope that the work of Memorial will not be lost
Pia Pera, writer, former student of the Old Believers of Russia
Rosanna Giaquinta
I am a teacher of Russian language and literature at Udine University (Italy).
I wish to add my name to the signatures above.
Piotr Grochocki
M.A. in Political Science, East European History and Modern History, Munich
Talia Zajac
Ph.D. Candidate,
University of Toronto
Dr. Andrea Huterer
historian and editorial journalist, Berlin
Halyna Hryn
Please add my signature
Halyna Hryn, PhD
Editor
Harvard Ukrainian Studies
Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University
Heinrich Blatt
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Heinrich Blatt
Die Vorgehensweise erinnert an George Orwells Gedankenpolizei. Das Memorial-Archiv muss unverzüglich wieder hergestellt werden, weil es einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag zur Auseinandersetzung mit und zur “Aufarbeitung” der sowjetischen Geschichte und der russischen Gegenwart leistet.
ROBERT SERVICE, Ph.D., F.B.A.
Truly the police raid on an inoffensive organisation such as ‘Memorial’ is a scandal. The interests of Russian citizens lie in the examination of the country’s difficult past without official intervention. It is bad enough that the government put pressure on authors to write the historical textbooks it requires; but when archives are seized in this fashion bad has gone to worse. Oral testimonies about the years of the Gulag should be treasured, not suppressed.
Evidence Against Memorial Delayed : Sean’s Russia Blog
[...] Russia is mostly based on interviews and materials collected by Memorial, has written a petition to President Medvedev. So far the petition has been signed by many well known American and [...]
Carlo Benazzi, student
A young italian student writing from St. Petersburg.
Dr. Christian Gudehus
Managing Director
Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research
at the
Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany
Padraig Reidy
Here are additional names received by Index on Censorship
Dr Elena Katz
St Antony’s College, Oxford
(ex-Max Hayward Research Fellow in Russian Literature, 2006-2008)
George M. Logan
Cappon Professor of English
Queen’s University, Canada
Dr. Victoria Ruetalo
Associate Chair (Undergraduate Studies)
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Arts 209E
Edmonton, AB Canada T6G 2E6
Wayne Dowler
Professor of Russian History
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Elizabeth V. Haigh, Ph.D.
Professor of History (retired)
Saint Mary’s University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Steven Rosefielde
Professor of Economics
University of North Carolina
Robert E. Johnson
Professor of History Chair,
Dept. of Historical Studies
University of Toronto
Prof. Barbara Ronchetti
Associate Professor of Russian Literature and Language
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Patricia Leon
Department of Politics, International and Policy Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford
Theodore Voronov, PhD
Reader in Mathematics,
University of Manchester
Friederike Meese,
Berlin, Germany
Maritta v. Uechtritz
Translator, Munich
Lukas Leitner
Helle Kuhlenkamp, MA East European Studies
Berlin
Cathy A. Frierson, Professor
History Department
University of New Hampshire
USA
M.A. Katja Grote,
PhD Student at Humboldt University Berlin,
Germany scholar of Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
Prof. Joseph Schallert
Slavic Linguistics
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Toronto
Prof. Charles M. Becker
Department of Economics
Duke University
North Carolina USA
John McCannon
Associate Professor of History
University of Saskatchewan
Editor, Canadian Journal of History
Professor Joan Neuberger
Department of History
University of Texas at Austin
Anne Krier (Berlin, Germany)
M.A. in Russian History and Literature
Dr. Dina Zisserman-Brodsky,
Lecturer, Department of Politics and Government,
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Jan Musekamp, Ph.D.,
European University
Viadrina Frankfurt(Oder)
Prof. Dr. Joerg Hackmann
DAAD Alfred Doeblin Professor of East European History University of Szczecin
Dept. of History and International Relations ul. Krakowska
Poland
Maria Feretti
Professor of Contemporary History
Università della Tuscia (Italy)
Chercheur associé CERCEC EHESS (Paris)
Alexis Berelowitch
Chercheur associé CERCEC EHESS (Paris)
Ancien directeur du Centre Franco-russe en Sciences Sociales et Humaines de Moscou
Allan Reid
Professor, Chair of Department of Culture and Language Studies Former President of the Canadian Association of Slavists
Claudia Haller, B.A.
Kathrin Mueller (MA),
Dusseldorf, Germany
Elisabeth Ritter, M.A.,
Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Reinhart Kössler,
Arnold Bergstraesser Institut,
Freiburg
Emanuela Sgambati
Dipartimento di Studi Europei ed Interculturali sezione di SSEUCO Università degli Studi “Sapienza”
Roma
Dan Stone, FRSA
Professor of Modern History
Director of Graduate Studies (Research)
Royal Holloway, University of London
Emanuela Guercetti
Sezione di Slavistica
Università degli studi di Milano
Italy
Francesca Gori
President of Memorial Italia
Milan, Italy
Professor Dr. Gerhard Hirschfeld
Leiter und Direktor der
Bibliothek für Zeitgeschichte (BfZ)
in der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek (WLB)
Felix Petersen
Dr. Nanci Adler
Centrum voor Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
Amsterdam
Prof. Selma Leydesdorff
Oral history and culture
dep Arts Religion Culture
Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Jon Mathieu,
Lucerne, Switzerland
Dr. Marc Jansen, Eastern European Studies,
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Kees Boterbloem
Professor of History
Editor, The Historian
University of South Florida
Florian Mategka,
Hannover, Germany
Dr. Natalia Tukhareli, Ph.D
Associate of the Centre for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies
University of Toronto
Dr. Elena Pribytkova
Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
admin
Neal Pease
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI 53201
Mark Lipovetsky,
doktor filologichskikh nauk, professor Universiteta Colorado(Boulder, USA),
chlen Akademii sovremennoi rossisikoi slovesnosti.
Ksenya Kiebuzinski, Ph.D.,
Slavic Resources Coordinator, and Head, Petro
Jacyk Central and East European Resource Centre
at the University of Toronto Libraries
Przemyslaw Milewicz
MPhil in Modern European History, Cambridge
Honorary Scholar of Cambridge European Trust
Honorary Scholar of Cambridge Overseas Trust
John-Paul Himka
Professor of Ukrainian and East European History
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Professor Steven G. Marks
Dr. Douglas Barbour
Professor Emeritus
University of Alberta
Dr Ellen Rutten
Research associate University of Cambridge
Editor Russian Cyberspace project (winner Altdorfer-Leibniz Preis 2005)
Co-convener study group Contemporary Russian Culture, U of Cambridge
Ann Komaromi, Assistant Professor
Centre for Comparative Literature
University of Toronto
Andrea Riscassi
Journalist Rai Milano
Corso Sempione, 27
Dr. Russell Cobb
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Latin American Studies
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Canada
Gary Marker
Professor of History
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook New York, USA
Dr Ute Stock
PhD, MPhil, BA (Hons) Cantab
Professor Peter Kornicki, FBA
Deputy Warden
Robinson College
Cambridge, UK
Svetlana Boym
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature
Executive Committee of the Davis Center for Russian Studies
Harvard University
Sibelan Forrester
Professor of Russian
Swarthmore College
(Swarthmore, PA, USA)
Christoph Dankert
MMath, MBA Candidate
Anne Waller
St Edmund’s College
University of Cambridge
Mount Pleasant
Cambridge
R.M.Cleminson, M.A., D.Phil.,
Professor of Slavonic Studies,
University of Portsmouth, UK
Ann Kjellberg
Dr. Elmar Kriegler
Potsdam, Germany
Paola Bertolone
Dr. Florian Mühlfried
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Ingrid Wirengren
Teacher, Lviv State University
Ivana Franka, Lviv, Ukraine
Jonathan Drury, MA Cantab (Russian and German)
Head of Russian at Sevenoaks School, Kent, England
Honesty Pern, Undergraduate student of Russian.
Honesty Pern
Jesus College
Raphael Flore
Germany
Julie Hemment, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
UMass Amherst
Robert Toothill
Donatella Possamai
Professor of Russian Literature, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy
Member of the editorial board of the journal “Studi slavistici” (official
organ of the Italian Association of Slavists)
Member of the Praesidium of CEG (Interdepartmental Center for Culture and
Economy of Globalization)
Sylvia Brown Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English and Film Studies
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E5
Louisa Coward
student
Anika Walke, M.A.,
PhD Candidate,
History of Consciousness Dept.,
UC Santa Cruz, USA
Prof. Dr. Bianka Pietrow-Ennker,
Konstanz, Germany
Dr. Chauncey J. Mellor
PhD, The University of Chicago
Professor of German
Ex-Head, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
The University of Tennessee
Phi Beta Kappa
Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Luigi Marinelli
Chair prof. of Slavistics – Polish Language and Literature
Sapienza Università di Roma
Emilia Magnanini
Associated professor of Russian Literature
At the University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”
Venice, Italy
Semion Lyandres
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Rory Finnin
Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies
Department of Slavonic Studies
University of Cambridge
Hugh Denman
Honorary Research Fellow in Yiddish
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University College London
Gower Street
London W1E 6BT
England
Tristra Newyear
PhD candidate, Mongolian Studies
Central Eurasian Studies
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN, USA
Kitty Stidworthy, MA, PGCE,
Affiliated Lecturer, Cambridge University Slavonic Dept. (ret’d).
Lalé-Eleonora Cabuk,
first year- undergraduate in Russian (Modern and
Medieval Languages) King’s College, Cambridge
Douglas R. Weiner
Professor of History
Past President, American Society for Environmental History
Department of History
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Mr. Luis Sundkvist
Carol A. Hart, Ph.D.
Special Lecturer
Center for International Programs
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan
USA
Marit Cremer, Diplom-Soziologin,
Author of Fremdbestimmtes Leben. Eine biographische Studie über Frauen in Tschetschenien. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2007
Interpreter for Russian language at Berlin Treatment Centre for
Victoms of Torture; Member and head of Memorial Germany.
Kenneth Brostrom,
Professor of Russian
Carla K. Whitley
Lecturer in Spanish
University of Tennessee - Knoxville, TN, USA
Ruth Burholt
BSc Hons Adult Nursing year 3 (2006-2009)
BA Russian and East European Studies (1994-1998)
Volunteer translator for Amnesty International and Memorial (2002-2004)
Krystyna Jaworska
Tatiana Yankelevich, Director
Sakharov Program on Human Rights
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, S324
Cambridge, MA 02138
Mark Brinkley
undergraduate student
University of Cambridge.
Olga Cooke
Associate Prof. of Russian
Dept. of European & Classical Langs.,
Texas A&M University, College Station
Professor Rose Glickmn
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Rosemary Finlinson
Undergraduate at Cambridge University
Jochen Guckes
Berlin, Germany
Eugene Clay
Associate Professor
Religious Studies Department, Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-3104
Kazimierz Zorawski
Poland
Andrew Blane,
Professor (Emeritus) of Russian History,
City University of New York
Antonia Immerz
Dipl. Information Scientist
Carol Dockham
Research analyst, U.S.-Russia Joint Presidential Commission on Prisoners of War/Missing in Action personnel, 1996-2002.
Currently graduate student of Russian history, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Susan Costanzo
Associate Professor
Department of History
Western Washington University
Robert Argenbright
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Geology
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Wilmington, NC 28403
Eleanor Peers, BA (Hons), MA PgDip,
PhD candidate at the University of
Cambridge
Roman Solecki, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA
Mark A. Keck-Szajbel, MA
PhD Candidate, History
University of California, Berkeley
Dr Alina Cala,
Historian of The Jewish Historical Institute at Warsaw, Poland
Member of The Committee of Workers’ Defense (KOR, 1976-81).
Giovanna Siedina
Assistant professor of Russian Language and Literature
Member of the Italian Associatio of Slavists (AIS)
Member of the Italian Association of Ukrainian Studies (AISU)
Member of Editorial Board of the journal Studi Slavistici
Stefan Wisniowski,
B.Arch, MBA, MRAIC, FAICD, AFAIM
Seaforth NSW Australia
Xenia Dennen,
Chairman of Keston Institute,
Oxford, UK
T. Mills Kelly, PhD
Associate Dean
College of Humanities and Social Sciences and
Director, MA Program in Global Affairs
George Mason University
Uwe Koehn, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Statistics
The University of Connecticut
Roger Watkins BA Soc Pol, DipTch.
Victoria University of Wellington,
Hiroaki Kuromiya,
Indiana University, USA
Julie Stone Peters,
Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature,
Harvard University, USA
Myroslav Marynovych,
Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University for the University
Mission,
Former Ukrainian dissident,
“For Courage” Order of Ukraine, 1st degree
“For Merits” Order of Poland, Chevalier Cross
Gemma Pörzgen,
journalist in Berlin, Germany
Lech Kopczynski
Catriona Bass MA Oxon
Fellow George Bell Institute
University of Chichester
Franziska Nägele, B.A.,
Munich, Germany
Katja Doose
Student of Russian Studies and history at the University of Dresden
Wolfgang Obermair,
Assistant Professor at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Hanne Kleinemas M.A.
Heppenheim
Germany
Volker Weichsel
(Redaktion OSTEUROPA),
Berlin, Germany
Fernanda Eberstadt,
Novelist
Dr. Caroline Lusin
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Anglistisches Seminar
Kettengasse 12
69117 Heidelberg
Vladimir Sherov
Associate professor,
Faculty of Economics
St.Petersburg State University
St.Petersburg, Russia
Jonathan Widder
Manuela Putz, M.A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftsmanagement
Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen
Klagenfurter Strasse 3
D-28359 Bremen, Germany
Fiona Gutsch
DAAD-Lektorin
Paedagogisches Institut der SGU
Lehrstuhl fuer Deutsch
ul. Zauloshnova, 3
410028 Saratov
Anton Markschteder,
Bachelor of Arts
Stefan Neumann
Master of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science
Dr.Elena Stepanova,
Historian, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena,
Department of Eastern European History.
Mirjam Sprau, M.A.
PhD student at the university of Bremen
Franziska Dürbeck
Germany
Anke Nowottne (Dipl. Des. FH)
Research fellow at the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences
(University of the Arts/ Universität der Künste, Berlin)
Tobias Gögler,
Bachelor in European Studies
Germany
Christian Geissler-Jagodzinski
Association Learning from History/
Lernen aus der Geschichte e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
Nikolay Barbov
M.A., Germany
Anne-Christin Plate,
Artist, Germany
Martin Lutz Mueller,
Student of Eastern European History in Jena, Germany.
Daria Schönemann,
Potsdam, Germany
Dr Alexandra Harrington, BA Hons, MA, PhD in Russian(University of Nottingham)
Senior Lecturer,
Department of Russian, University of Durham.
Dr. Volker Wenzel
Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research
(former ‘aspirant’ at MGU)
Anna Morpurgo,
Italy
Dr. Silke Satjukow
Historisches Institut der
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Dr. Christine Gölz
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Freie Universität Berlin
Osteuropa-Institut
Arbeitsbereich Geschichte und Kultur
Marc Müller,
Journalist, Munich, Germany
Mag. Ulrich Hofmeister
Dalibor Dobias,
Lecturer,
University of Pisa, Italy
Vladimir Keidan
docente
Istituto di Slavistica
Universita di Urbino
Italia
Sabine Gerhardus
Project leader of the Dachau Book of Remembrance
Karoline Thaidigsmann, M.A.
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ulrike Gatzemeier, MPhil,
Berlin, Germany
Linda Pelchat
Helen O’Gorman,
BA Hons Modern Languages, Bradford University
Dr. Felix Schnell
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philosophische Fakultät I
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Osteuropas
Christopher Schumann
Germany
Dr. habil. Andreas Langenohl
Konstanz, Germany
Tillmann Lohse
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte I
Olivia Jones
Russian student at Cambridge University
Lena Förster
student, Germany
Eva Brandstädter,
Germany
Willi Reinecke
Student (Berlin)
Armin Siebert
Germany
Dagmara Manka-Wizor;
The KARTA Center, Warszawa
Coordinator of the project “Casualties and victims of oppressions under the German occupation”
Thomas Loy, M.A.
Berlin
Dr. Bjorn Ingvoldstad
Assistant Professor of Media Studies & Communication Technologies
Department of Communication Studies
Bridgewater State College
Rudi Brückner
Former Direktor of the Orchester at the Stuttgart Opera
Adam Lewis (undergrad, Cambridge University)
Thomas Weiler
Anatole Romaniuk, PhD,
Adjunct Professor (currently), University of Alberta,
Professor of demography (formerly), University of Montreal,
President of the Federation of Canadian Demographers (1993-96)
The 2008 CPS Award Winner for the contribution to demography
Dr. phil. Christoph Scheurle
Berlin, Germany
Matthias Battis
Bachelor of Cultural Sciences European University Viadrina Germany
Student at the University of Warsaw
Prof. dr. Claudia Scandura
Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Interculturali
Sezione di Slavistica
Sapienza - Università di Roma
Robert Kindler
Assistant Faculty, Department of Eastern European History, Humboldt
University Berlin
Mathias Pluess,
Journalist, Switzerland
Jonathan Daly
Professor of Russian History, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sabina Meier, Lic.phil.
Switzerland
Tom Lodge
Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Limerick University
Mirjam Kotzur
Germany
Paul Werth
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
Nina Loewen,
Psychology student and grandchild of Gulag victims under Stalin,
Münster, Germany
Dr. Frank Grüner
Junior Research Group Leader
Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe”
University of Heidelberg
Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Ms. Valerie Engler, Mag. art. in Russian language and literature
Translator and teacher
In summer 2001 intern at RIC Memorial St Petersburg
Regula M. Zwahlen, lic. phil., Ph.D. student
Universität Freiburg
Institut für Ost- und Ostmitteleuropa /
Kulturphilosophie
CH-1763 Granges-Paccot
Perrine Canavaggio
Conservateur général du patrimoine
Deputy Secretary General/Secrétaire générale adjointe
International Council on Archives
Conseil international des Archives
60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75OO3 Paris - France
Franz Preißler,
Free-lance journalist
George G. Somjen MD,PhD
Professor emeritus
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC, USA
Susanne Krismer
Austria
Gerald Surh
Prof.of History
North Carolina State University
Hannah Brodersen
Germany
Jurij Dobczansky
Librarian/cataloging specialist
Washington, DC
Kerstin Meyer,
M.A., Leipzig, Germany
Christina Hiessl
Austria
Dr Elisabeth Robson
(MA Oxon, DPhil Oxon, MBA)
Professor Michele Rivkin-Fish
Department of Anthropology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Bruno Cappuccio
Avvocato, Italia
Daniel Rowland
Director Emeritus, Gaines Center for the Humanities, and Associate Professor of Russian History, University of Kentucky
w.fritschy
I endorse the letter to president Medvedev on the Memorial’s historical archive.
Prof.dr. W. Fritschy
Faculty of Arts, History Department
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel. 0031-20-5982928
Dr Christopher Waters
Faculty of Law
University of Windsor
Windsor, Canada
enrica risposi
buon natale
Stefano L. Dini
Marketing Manager, Italia
Andy Bruno
Andy Bruno
Ph.D. Candidate
History Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anna Balogh
MA
Peter Pazmany Catholic University
Hungary
Przemysław Czapliński
I would like to add my signature to the list and give my support of the open letter to Dmitrii Medvedev.
j.pollmann@let.leidenuniv.nl
Prof. Judith Pollmann
History Department
Leiden University
The Netherlands
Andreas Brekke Carlsson
Andreas Brekke Carlsson, Phd student, department of philosophy, University of Oslo.
Naomi Fatouros
I am only an amateur scholar of Russian history, whose ancestors were born in Russia. I have recently read Orlando Figes, “The Whisperers” and Tim Tsouliadis “The Forsaken.” Although I am no longer able physically or financially to do research in various archives in Russia and the Ukraine, I have been very distressed to learn that the archives of the “Memorial” have been raided and apparently confiscated. I beg you to ensure that these archives are kept intact and uncensored and I hope that they will be soon made available again for other researchers.
Seth Singleton
Adjunct Professor of International Relations, the University of Maine
Professor and Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Pacific University, Oregon
Theodora J. Erlijna
Researcher,
The Indonesian Institute of Social History, Jakarta - Indonesia.
I support the open letter and would like to add my signature to it.
Robert S. Broadhead
Please add my name to the Open Letter to President Medvedev, insisting on the return of complete data-bases belonging to Memorial, St. Petersburg.
Atty. James J. Crisan
This is an outrage. We should implore our collective governments to demand at the diplomatic level that these materials be returned.
Janos M. Rainer
Please add my name to the open letter to President Medvedev, Janos M. Rainer, Director, 1956 Institute, Budapest, Hungary
giovanna niccoli
please add my name and the name of my husband,MASSIMO DURANTI, to the open letter
thank you
Roumiana K. Popova
Dear colleagues,
The content of your letter I received through Prof.dr. Selma Leydesdorff have deeply saddened me. The repressive and barbaric (KGB-style) acts of the ‘Public Prosecutor’s Office of St. Petersburg’ are despicable and frightening!
I protest against this brutal destruction of memory and plead for the prompt return of the plundered archives to their legal owner RIC “Memorial”.
I fully support the courageous and righteous efforts of RIC members to investigate the horrors of Stalinism and to disclose KGB archives for public use.
As an art historian born in Bulgaria, I specially thank Mr. Aleksandr Margolis for his endeavours to preserve the rich architectural heritage of St. Peterburg from the destructive, anti-aesthetical waves of consumerist ‘modernisation’ and McDonaldisation (which are alas prevailing the public space of many former communist countries).
Please add my name to the open letter,
Sincerely yours,
Roumiana K. Popova, PhD
Department of European Cultural History,
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Penka Popova - MFA
The confiscation is clearly an act of barbarism. Someone stop that! Please, add my name in support to the open letter!
Penka Popova
MFA
Robert Blume
Former professor of art education,
at the Acacdemie voor Beeldende Kunsten Arnhem, The Netherlands.
Joeri Buhrer Tavanier
MA Russian Studies
please add me to the list
Alexander Dolberg
I support the protest as someone who spent his life studying Stalinism and as a Russian.
Graham Jones
I would like to sign this petition.
This confiscation makes a mockery of the suffering and deaths of millions.
Graham Jones, Human Rights activist, Sheffield
Jill Knight
This is a priceless archive, an immensely valuable tool in the objective assessment of twentieth century history.
Sylvia Sasse
Please, add my signature to the list.
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Sasse
Direktorin des Instituts für Slawistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sandro Zanetti
Please, add my signature to the list.
Prof. Dr. Sandro Zanetti
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Luka Szucsich
Please, add my name to the list
Prof. Dr. Luka Szucsich
Institut für Slawistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Alexander Karschnia
I visited Memorial last August and I was shocked to hear about this police raid! Shortly before the newspaper of Chto Delat was also confiscated by the State (ironically the issue about perestroika and the meaning of defeat): http://www.chtodelat.org.
Thomas Skowronek
Please, add my name in support to the open letter.
Thomas Skowronek
Institut für Slawistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
V. Andy Kravchenko
When asked, Where do “Public Defenders (sic) find recruits in the fashion of KGB, SS, etc., to fill the positions of “Storm Troopers?”
Answer, “On any street corner, on any street corner!” They are ever among us.
Everyone responsible for public treasures should secret copies in at least three places. It is not that difficult or costly today.
I pray for all “Freedom Fighters.” Keep a strong heart.
VAK