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Memory and Digital Archives: The RIMA Project Course — Bard College / Smolny Beyond Borders, August 2025

A course by RIMA's curator Tamara Velikodneva on working with digital archives and methods for preserving journalistic evidence. The course uses RIMA materials as practical case studies and introduces students to tools for documenting and analyzing media archives.

The Temple of War — Ilya Venyavkin — Meduza, StraightForward Foundation, 2025

A book by historian and RIMA's co-founder Ilya Venyavkin on Soviet military mythology and the mechanisms behind the formation of the cult of war. The study is based on archival materials and examines how the language of memory and propaganda became part of state ideology.

"Here, they are afraid of bushes, their own shadows. Their own imagination." Thirty years ago, the first Chechen war began. Journalist Galina Kovalskaya was in Grozny when federal troops stormed the city, and she covered the terrorist attack in Budennovsk. Here is her story – Meduza

"I will do everything to stop this war." Ten years without Boris Nemtsov. He opposed the invasion of Ukraine and, together with Russians, organized a campaign against the first Chechen war. Here's how it happened — Meduza

Execution in installments. Better a bad life sentence than a good death penalty – Новая Вкладка

The antimatter of Russian life. Konstantin Shavlovsky looks at the Lenta.doc archive from the future – Republic