Katerina Belenkina

Katerina joined the Blinken OSA Archivum in 2022 after Russia launched a full-scale invasion in Ukraine. Her strong anti-war position, repeated persecutions of her family members, and professional affiliations with the opposition NGOs forced her to leave Russia. Trained as an Art Historian, in recent years, Katerina turned her focus to complex processes that resulted in disintegration of the Soviet Union. In the 2010s, she curated Memorial's educational initiatives and served as a director of public programs at the Yegor Gaidar Foundation. In this capacity, she was an editor of two groundbreaking books on the transitional historical period of the 1990s: Museum of the 1990s: The Territory of freedom (2016); Why the USSR dissolved: Leaders of the former Soviet republics sharе their recollections. Interviewed by Arkady Dubnov (2019).

At the archive, Katerina is surveying Russian Federation and Ukraine in the 1980s -1990s and writing articles on this subject for the OSA blog.

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Against Terror Past and Present

Remembering Andrei Sakharov: The Truth of One Man

Nuclear Disarmament and the Budapest Memorandum: “the Arrival of a Safer Era for the World”?