International Memorial Association

The association was established in order to promote civil liberties, democracy, supremacy of the law and priority of the rights of the individual in public policy and social life. It researches, documents and analyzes all manifestations of political violence, in past and present, in the former USSR and other countries affected by the crimes of Soviet and post-Soviet regimes.

Researching into the history of terror and resistance, Memorial at the same time fights for human rights, promotes building and maintaining civil societies, democracy-driven and law-bound governments, so that a backlash into dictatorship would not be possible.