For three months, the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation has been conducting public interviews with Ukrainian professionals in the field of national memory preservation as part of the VOICES exhibition at the Museum of the History of Kyiv. By popular demand, the Museum is publishing a series of video interviews from the first cycle of cultural events of the exhibition

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Why is the preservation of national remembrance so important for Ukrainians? What should justice look like during the war and post-war? How is society transforming amid the unpredictability and duration of events in Ukraine? What should each of us know, reflect on, and remember about this war? The most pressing questions were answered by experts specially for the Museum's series of interviews.

The first public interview of the series is a conversation with Oleksandra Matviychuk, a human rights activist, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and coordinator of the Euromaidan SOS initiative group. The conversation was moderated by Anastasiia Platonova, a cultural critic, cultural analyst and curator of this series of events.

They talked about the following:

- why it is important to document the experiences of war and what they affect;

- what Ukrainian human rights activists are currently doing, and key current processes;

- how what foreigners read, listen to and see about the war in Ukraine affects systemic changes in understanding what is happening in Ukraine and the world;

- what to do with the Western world's "war fatigue";

- how Ukraine and Ukrainians can cope with the need to reset the system of international law;

- how to come to terms with the infinite amount of evil, violence, injustice, and impunity;

- why it is important to remember

- what everyone can do to help Ukrainian human rights defenders.

The VOICES exhibition by the Museum of Civilian Voices by Rinat Akhmetov Foundation lasted for three months at the Museum of the History of Kyiv to reveal the depth and power of living human stories collected in the more than 110,000-item archive of the Museum of Civilian Voices. Over 5,000 people have visited the exhibition since then. The first season of the exhibition is over.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine expressed its gratitude to the Museum of Civilian Voices for its significant contribution to the preservation of Ukraine's national memory through the collection, storage and dissemination of testimonies of Ukrainians about the war, in particular through the VOICES exhibition, and recommended the exhibition for presentation in Europe and the United States.

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