“Return of Names” is an all-Russian civil action in memory of victims of political repressions organized by Memorial, an international human rights and educational society. On a predetermined day and time, the townspeople, replacing each other, read out the names of compatriots who were innocently shot during the years of Soviet power. In Moscow, the rally is held at the monument to the victims of political repression, the Solovetsky stone

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