In her recent interview to Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė delved into the questions of establishing transnational solidarities within democratization efforts, developing legislative frameworks for addressing historical responsibility, and strengthening connections between academia and decision-makers.

The link here: https://visibleukraine.org/story/legislating-memory-on-memory-governance-and-decision-making-amidst-the-war/

The paper titled “Championing accountability: Lithuania’s leadership in investigating Russian crimes in Ukraine”, published in The Polish Yearbook of International Law (Polish Academy of Sciences) and funded by the MEMOCRACY project, she argues that Lithuania is shouldering a significant portion of this responsibility. However, achieving meaningful results will require overcoming numerous challenges along the way.

This paper is the part of a special issue, addressing issues in international law in the reality of wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

Link to paper: https://czasopisma.inp.pan.pl/index.php/pyil/article/view/5688/4209

Link to the special issue: https://czasopisma.inp.pan.pl/index.php/pyil/issue/view/502

In her recent interview to RFE, Prof Angelika Nußberger, the Head of the MEMOCRACY consortium, spoke about the instrumentalization of historical memories of the difficult past in Europe.

The Russian language transcript of the interview is available here.

Courtesy by Pascal Buenning (Courtesy Photo).

This is the final MEMOCRACY Newsletter.

In his recent contribution to Verfassungsblog, the PI of the Dutch MEMOCRACY team, Dr. Ulad Belavusau, analyzes how the Jewish past has influenced constitutional and citizenship law in Israel, Portugal, Spain and Germany.

The text is available here.

The review is available here (in Estonian).