Dr. Andrii Nekoliak and Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė have published in Verfassungsblog on the legal dimension of World War 2 memories in Lithuania and Ukraine

MEMOCRACY team members, Dr. Andrii Nekoliak and Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė, have published a blog post on the political and legal symbolism of May 9 in East European ‘region of memory’. The blog entry takes a stock of legal measures by Lithuania and Ukraine to countervail Russia’s decades-long mnemo-political aggressiveness. The authors position both nations as sharing a number of common mnemo-political characteristics since obtaining national independence in 1991. They trace the evolution of war symbols legislation in both countries in the face of Russian aggressiveness in the region.  

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Dr. Andrii Nekoliak and Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė have published in Verfassungsblog on the legal dimension of World War 2 memories in Lithuania and Ukraine

MEMOCRACY team members, Dr. Andrii Nekoliak and Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė, have published a blog post on the political and legal symbolism of May 9 in East European ‘region of memory’. The blog entry takes a stock of legal measures by Lithuania and Ukraine to countervail Russia’s decades-long mnemo-political aggressiveness. The authors position both nations as sharing a number of common mnemo-political characteristics since obtaining national independence in 1991. They trace the evolution of war symbols legislation in both countries in the face of Russian aggressiveness in the region.