Simon Cosgrove: Arseny Roginsky - The Quiet Revolutionary

It is wonderful to read the moving tributes to Arseny Roginsky by his Russian friends and colleagues. It is perhaps not out of place to add a few words of tribute in English.  Arseny Borisovich was an extraordinarily intelligent, charming, charismatic, modest, and at the same time an intensely serious, courageous and committed man. The events of his life’s story – his work as a historian, his imprisonment as a dissident, the development of Memorial, his role in the human rights movement – all illustrate his wide intellectual horizons, deep human sympathies, his strong pragmatism, his rich gifts as a leader, writer and speaker, and his resilient values. [Read more]