Memorial

MEMORIAL International is a Russian historical and civil rights group that operates in a number of post-Soviet states. It focuses on recording and publicising the Soviet Union's totalitarian past, and monitoring human rights in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Georgia Thomson is a translator from Russian to English. She studied at the Institute Supé rieur d'Interpré tation et de Traduction (ISIT) in Paris and went on to attain a First Class Hons degree in Russian and French. She lived in Moscow for several years and is now based in London.