Kronika brings together journalists, archivists, researchers, educators, activists, and technologists working against the disappearance of public memory.
What community means to us
public programmes, community gatherings, awards and education.
We build this community through
Public Programme
A series of events exploring how public memory is being transformed in the digital age.
Kronika's Public Programme brings together leading voices from journalism, human rights, technology, research, philosophy, and preservation to examine how public memory is being transformed in the digital age.
Our flagship series, Digital Oblivion: Who Controls What We Remember?, explores censorship and authoritarian erasure, the ethics of remembering and forgetting, algorithmic control over knowledge, the fragility of the internet, and new forms of civic resistance. The goal is not only to diagnose the problem, but to ask what institutions, technologies, standards, and alliances are needed to preserve digital memory as a public good.
Kronika: Against Oblivion Journalism Award
For journalism that refuses to let important stories disappear.
Quarterly
$1,000 prize
Open nominations
The Kronika: Against Oblivion Journalism Award recognizes work that revives forgotten or erased stories, preserves vulnerable evidence and testimony, investigates the mechanisms of forgetting, or creates new tools for public memory.
The award currently focuses on Russian-language journalism about the post-Soviet period and is open to many forms - including reporting, documentaries, podcasts, data investigations, archival storytelling, digital repositories, and experimental projects. It is awarded quarterly; starting in 2026, winners are selected by an independent jury of journalists, archivists, historians, and editors. The minimum prize is $1,000.
Education
Learning to use archives, data, and technology for public good.
Together with Bard College and Smolny Beyond Borders, Kronika supports researchers and educators who want to use the Russian Independent Media Archive and related tools in their work.
The Kronika Certificate Program: Data for Social Good offers online courses on archives, data, technology, and history, exploring how these tools can help resist autocracy, strengthen independent institutions, and support social change. Participants can take individual courses or earn a RIMA Certificate after completing three courses.
Community Gatherings
A quarterly meeting for journalists in exile in New York.
Kronika brings together journalists forced into exile from different authoritarian countries who are now rebuilding their professional and personal lives in New York.
These quarterly gatherings create a regular space to meet peers, exchange experience, support one another, build new professional connections, and explore new ways to collaborate and act across borders. The goal is to create an ongoing community, not a one-time event.
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