About the project
75 years ago, the Soviet Union led the fight towards Victory and freed the people of Europe from Nazism and fascism, together with the allies, the resistance and anti-fascist underground. Today, we are united by the same values: the struggle against fascism and militarism, for peace and justice. Like-minded people from all over the world — prominent politicians, public figures, academics — discuss how we can defend the great ideals of Victory today.
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Russia
Lydia Mikheeva
President of the Russian Civic Chamber, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation. She is also the Chairman of the Council of the Sergey Alekseev's Research Center for Private Law…
Russia
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the upper chamber of Parliament. He was the last Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1985−1991…
Russia
Mikhail Moiseev
Chairman of the Russian Union of Veterans since 2012, Inspector General of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation since 2016, General of the Army, Doctor of Military Sciences…
Russia
Vyacheslav Bocharov
Hero of the Russian Federation, 1st Vice-President of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, President of the Public Chamber of the 5th convocation. Previously, he was a Colonel…
Russia
Veronika Krasheninnikova
Deputy Chairwoman of the Commission on Public Diplomacy at the Russian Civic Chamber, a political scientist and historian-researcher. She is also a member of the Supreme Council…
Russia
Sergey Ordzhonikidze
Deputy Secretary of the Russian Civic Chamber, Chairman of the Russian Public Council for International Cooperation and Public Diplomacy at the Civic Chamber, Ambassador Extraordinary…
Germany
Matthias Platzeck
Chairman of the German-Russian Forum since 2014. He has been a member of the SPD since 1995 and was elected Prime Minister of Brandenburg in 2002−2013. In 2005−2006 he was also Chairman…
Germany
Sahra Wagenknecht
Member of the German Bundestag from DIE LINKE, and was the Chairperson of the DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Bundestag from October 2017 to November 2019...
Germany
Kerstin Kaiser
Head of the Moscow branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation since 2016. She is a Slavist, a political scientist, and a politician. From 1999 to 2016, Kaiser was Member of the Landtag of Brandenburg…
Germany
Thomas Kunze
The head of the Moscow Office and the Country Representative for Russia of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. This is his second tour: previously he ran the Moscow office in 2005−2008…
Germany
Jörg Morré
He has been Director of the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst since 2009. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the German War Graves Commission and the German-Russian…
Germany
Reiner Braun
Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, a Peace Nobel Price winner as organization, and one of the main speakers of the peace movement in German…
France
Jean de Gliniasty
He was Ambassador of France to Russia from 2009−2013. He is currently Director of Research for Russia and CIS at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations, IRIS, in Paris…
Great Britain
Kate Hudson
Peace activist and historian. For many years an academic, she was Head of Social and Policy Studies at London South Bank University from 2000−2010, and is author of a number of books…
Ireland
Helena Sheehan
Emeritus Professor at Dublin City University where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She has presented many conference papers and public lectures in universities…
Greece
Manolis Glezos
National hero of Greece, politician, writer and public figure. On the night of 30 May 1941, at the age of 19, together with his comrade Apostle Santas they climbed the Athens Acropolis…
Greece
Konstantinos Isychos
He was alternative Minister of Defense of the Hellenic Republic in the first Syriza government in 2015 and co-president of Greek-Russian ministerial working group. He was a Syriza deputy…
Greece
Yannis Kouzis
He is the Dean of the School of Political Science of Panteion University and Doctor in Social Law at the University of Paris-Nanterre, Professor of Labour Relations in the Department of Social Policy..
Italy
Pino Arlacchi
He was Under-Secretary General of the UN and Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime in 1997−2002. He is a leading authority and a scholar in the field of organized crime…
Spain
Baltasar Garzón
Prominent lawyer and legal activist. As a judge, he investigated genocide, terrorism, crimes against humanity (Francism, Pinochet), drug trafficking, corruption and organized…
Spain
María Lois
Faculty member at the Complutense University of Madrid, teaching and researching in the field of Political Geography and Geopolitics since 2001. She is currently the Chair…
Canada
Michael Jabara Carley
Professor of history at the Université de Montréal. He teaches the history of Russia and the USSR, World War II, and the Cold War. His research is focused on the relations of the Soviet Union…
Vietnam
Tran Thanh Man
Member of Secretariat at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of the Central Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front. He was Secretary of Can Tho City Party…
Australia
Adam Rorris
Senior economist in International Relations, Government Financing, Expenditure Analysis, Policy Analysis and Capacity Building. As an economist, he applies a political economy approach…
Brazil
Celso Amorim
Career diplomat, has been the longest serving foreign minister of Brazil to date (1993−1994 and 2003−2010). He also served as Minister of Defense (2011−2014). Amorim remains active…
Paraguay
Fernando Lugo
President of the Republic of Paraguay in 2008−2012. His presidency was overthrown by a US-backed controversial impeachment, described as a breakdown of the democratic order by…
Cuba
Abel Prieto
Minister of Culture of Cuba, for two periods (1997−2012 and 2016 -2018). He is currently president of Casa de las Americas, an institution that disseminates, publishes and awards literature…
Bolivia
Reymi Ferreira
He was Defense Minister of the Plurinational State of Bolivia in 2015−2018, during the government of Evo Morales. He is a lawyer, with a Master's degree in private international law…
Bolivia
María Luisa Ramos Urzagaste
She was Bolivia's Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2017. She served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to the Russian Federation in 2009−2015, Ambassador to Spain…
Argentina
Telma Luzzani
Argentinian journalist specializing in international politics. She is author of several books, including "Territories under surveillance"; "How the network of North American bases operates in South America"…
Venezuela
Freddy Fernandez Torres
Chargé d'Affaires of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Greece. He was president of the Venezuelan News Agency from 2004 to 2017, Secretary General of the Latin American Union…
India
Vijay Prashad
Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books in New Delhi, Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter, a columnist for Frontline. An Indian historian and journalist…
Germany
Konstanze Kriese
She completed studies in cultural history at the HUB in Berlin in 1985, wrote a thesis on production and art relationships dealing with rock music landscape in the GDR in 1988…
On the use of information

All materials on this website are available under license from Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.

Demonstration of Nazi and fascist paraphernalia or symbols on this resource is related only to the description of the historical context of the events of the 1930−1940s, is not its propaganda and does not justify the crimes of fascist Germany.
This is a project of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Institute of Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives