Memorial (society) - Mission and Activities

Mission and Activities

Memorial's full name is MEMORIAL Historical, Educational, Human Rights And Charitable Society. According to its charter, Memorial aims:

• To promote mature civil society and democracy based on the rule of law and thus to prevent a return to totalitarianism
• To assist formation of public consciousness based on the values of democracy and law, to get rid of totalitarian patterns, and to establish firmly human rights in practical politics and in public life
• To promote the revelation of the truth about the historical past and perpetuate the memory of the victims of political repression exercised by totalitarian regimes.

This is done, in particular, by keeping an electronic database of the victims of political terror in the USSR.

Memorial organizes assistance, both legal and financial, for the victims of the Gulag. It also conducts research into the history of political repression and publicizes the findings in books, articles, exhibitions, museums, and websites of its member organisations.