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Este domingo 9 de noviembre, únete a RIMA Fest: Historias que no se pueden borrar, una conversación global sobre memoria digital, archivos y resistencia. 🗓️ 2–4 PM EST | 💻 En línea Participan: Juan Luis Font, Michelle Mendoza, Quimy de León y más. 🔗 eventbrite.com/e/rima-fest-st…

Exciting news❗️ RIMA is hosting its inaugural hybrid festival: People Against Oblivion on Nov. 8-9. The festival brings together archivists, journalists, and researchers from around the world to explore how memory can defy erasure. We especially invite academics, students, and digital humanists to join two sessions tailored for scholarly audiences eventbrite.com/e/rima-fest-hi…

Don’t miss RIMA Fest 2025 — a global gathering on digital memory, truth & resistance. 📅 Nov 8-9 | 🌍 Hybrid: Berlin · NYC · Online Details 👉 fest.rima.media

«Развязывают себе руки». Кремль нашел способ бросить на войну еще 2 миллиона россиян ift.tt/E2tBiXS

We are only beginning our work with the archive. In the coming months, we will expand the collection with hundreds of additional videos and launch a full English-language version of the platform. For now, the restored archive in Russian is available by the link lentadoc.rima.media/catalog

This project also honors Rastorguev’s legacy and vision: to give every person the chance to be truly heard through the attentive lens of a documentary filmmaker. He was killed on July 30, 2018, in the Central African Republic alongside Orkhan Dzhemal and Kirill Radchenko while investigating Wagner Group activities. The full circumstances of their deaths remain unknown.

We are proud to present the restoration of Lenta.doc in partnership with Meduza (@meduza_en). It is a groundbreaking video chronicle created by documentary filmmaker Alexander Rastorguev for Lenta.ru in 2013–2014. The archive is a treasure trove of the first-person reports that documented key events of the era—Maidan, nationalist marches, trials, protests, and the annexation of Crimea—through a new cinematic language of unfiltered, immersive news.

Our co-founder Anna Nemzer, a TV Rain journalist, published a column in The Hill discussing the interplay of truth, archives, and authoritarianism in Russia and the U.S. Head over the link for this fascinating read on the state of archives in the U.S.: thehill.com/opinion/white-…

CPJ’s new report, “Alarm bells: Trump's first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy” identifies three main challenges for #PressFreedom in the US: ❌Limiting access for some news organizations ❌Regulatory and legal attacks on media ❌Targeting journalists and newsrooms 🔗cpj.org/?p=473694

Occupied Ukrainian territories now rank below North Korea in the Freedom in the World report. In today’s material from the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, we share how Russia dragged occupied territories into scoring negative figures (-1/100) on the freedom scale, as measured by Freedom House. After three years of Russia’s open war of aggression against Ukraine, political rights in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine have a rating of -2/40, while civil rights are only very slightly higher, at 1/60.  In all occupied territories, “the occupation government severely limits political and civil rights, has silenced independent media, and employs antiterrorism and other laws against political dissidents. The rule of law and civil liberties are not respected.” “Any pro-Ukrainian views remain banned from public discourse and can draw heavy punishment when openly expressed.” The report would be worth showing to those political leaders who are insisting that Ukraine should accept Russia’s occupation of its territory.  Doing so means betraying Ukrainian citizens and abandoning them to a frightening level of lawlessness and lack of freedom.  Read further about the findings of the report (particularly in areas such as change to the ethnic composition of the occupied territory, lack of freedom of faith and expropriation of property) on the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group website: khpg.org/en/1608814686 You can access the report itself on the Freedom House website: freedomhouse.org/country/russia… Photo: Detention of one of the elderly Crimean Tatars who were seeking to know where the FSB had taken Nariman Dzhelyal and four other men. Source: Crimean Solidarity

CPJ’s new report, “Alarm bells: Trump's first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy” identifies three main challenges for #PressFreedom in the US: ❌Limiting access for some news organizations ❌Regulatory and legal attacks on media ❌Targeting journalists and newsrooms 🔗cpj.org/?p=473694

5/5 Lastly, Dr. Giuliano spoke about her experience using RIMA for her research: "Even before 2014, it was dangerous for American citizens to conduct research in Russia, RIMA has provided a reliable alternative for traditional research." In terms of website functionality, Elise Giuliano commented: "It is great that you can toggle between Russian and English so easily....It is also great that there are links to Internet Archive, so you can see the original publication. There's a lot that I'm getting out of RIMA that I did not necessarily think I would - names, contacts - all thanks to links there."

4/5 Dr. Giuliano's research argues against such political visions, as they "ignore the reality on the ground and the dynamics between local governors and the Russian government." In an interview with RIMA Dr. Giuliano shares: "There are no demonstrations or opposition movements emerging that we can identify...separatism seems like a far off possibility. Talking about separatism can be dangerous for these national minorities, as they can be viewed as the "Fifth Column" by the government."

The Vesna movement organized nationwide anti-mobilization rallies, focusing on disproportionate ethnic minority conscription. The largest protests occurred in Dagestan, Buryatia, Tuva, Kalmykia, Sakha, and Bashkortostan. In Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov canceled mobilization after mothers' protests in Grozny. Motivated by indigenous rights, decolonization, and political momentum, NGOs like the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum emerged. In March 2025, they published an article: "Russia on the Brink of Fragmentation: The Illusion of Stability and the Objective Reality." The organization's website also features a map of the present-day Russia divided in 41 independent states largely based on the ethnic and historic borders. freenationsrf.org/en/news-posts/…

The question: "What issues anger and mobilize people against Putin regime?" has become pertinent in 2022. After Putin's announcement of partial mobilization in September of that year, the anti-mobilization protests have swept country. rima.media/en/document/20…

Today, we highlight the research of our Senior Fellow, Elise Giuliano on whether the Russia's war in Ukraine is stimulating Ethnic Grievances in Russia's Republics. Dr. Giuliano directs the Master of Arts in Regional Studies (REERS) and U.S.-Russia Relation Programs at Columbia University. 🧵Thread 1/5

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