The Institute will Cooperate with Partners in the Ukraine

Prague, December 22

– Last week, the Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Pavel Zacek, visited the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in Kiev, where he discussed various possibilities for mutual cooperation and exchange of experiences with its director, Igor Juchnovski. At the beginning of the year 2009, a cooperation agreement will be prepared for signature. The agreement will facilitate the exchange of information, as well as significantly ease research activity and the utilization of archival documents created by the activities of the Communist security apparatus. In the course of its research and publishing activities, the Institute will be able to draw on archival materials containing information not only on the activities of the NKVD/NKGB/KGB security services, but also on the partisan movement against Czechoslovakia. Historians of the partner Ukrainian Institute will be able to study archival documents concerning, among others, the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) on Czechoslovak territory. The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory was created in the year 2006 on the basis of a decision by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukraine. Recently, a law modifying the definitive institutional form of the Institute was put together. At the conclusion of the meeting, representatives of the Institute visited the memorial and museum dedicated to the famine in the Ukraine during the years 1932–33.