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Electronic album on repression victims released in Russia

MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - The presentation of an electronic album entitled Victims of Political Terror in the USSR was held in Moscow on Wednesday.

The album is comprised of two CDs and contains over 1.3 million names of people affected by political repression in the USSR. The album was prepared by the presidential commission on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression, the Andrei Sakharov museum and public center, and the organization Open Russia.

Arseny Roginsky, chairman of the Memorial foundation, said it has taken ten years to make this album. "In the meantime, many things that have been collected have not been published yet. According to the most conservative estimations, there should be ten times as many names," he said.

Alexander Yakovlev, chairman of the commission on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression, said he sees the publication of the album "not only as a contribution to Russian history, but as a signal to society to repent."

Yakovlev believes the federal authorities are not paying enough attention to issues related to the rehabilitation of victims of political repression.

The album has a circulation of 3,500 copies. Besides Moscow, presentations for it will also be held in many other Russian cities, including Voronezh, Murmansk, Novorossiisk, Penza, Perm, Saratov, St. Petersburg, Syktyvkar, Tula, Tomsk, Komsomolsk-on- Amur, and also in Ukraine (Lviv) and Germany (Berlin).