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

Until the early 1990s, the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known today as the Holodomor, belonged to the most repressed topics in Ukrainian and broader East European history.

The Memory of the Holodomor in Ukraine: A Dissonant Heritage that Haunts the Presence

New Curated Collection Presents Ukraine’s Struggle for Independence

Winning Freedom: Ukraine, 1989–1991

On December 5, 1994, an event took place in Budapest, Hungary, which became the final and defining step in a

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

”Westerners ask how Soviet citizens feel about their government's actions in Afghanistan; this question is difficult to answer in the

Remembering Andrei Sakharov: The Truth of One Man

 “Whose terror was it? . . . The mass consciousness views mass terror the same way it viewed the

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