Yeltsin Center received a prestigious European award

The Boris Yeltsin Museum in Yekaterinburg received one of the three main awards of the European Museum 2017 competition. First Deputy Executive Director of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center Lyudmila Telen reported this on her Facebook.

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“The museum makes a convincing impression with the design of its exhibition, the outstanding level of multimedia, a vibrant program of public lectures and seminars, and well-organized temporary exhibitions... The Yeltsin Center is both a memorial to a major political figure and a chronicle of dramatic episodes that remain in the memory of contemporaries. It encourages visitors to draw their own conclusions about the history of modern Russia...

The Yeltsin Center is both a memorial to a major political figure and a chronicle of dramatic episodes that remain in the memory of contemporaries. It encourages visitors to draw their own conclusions about the history of modern Russia,” the diploma says.

E1 reports that the acting governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Yevgeny Kuyvashev, congratulated the Yeltsin Center staff on their impressive success.

Late last year, the museum found itself at the center of a debate. Director Nikita Mikhalkov, in an open letter to the widow Naina Yeltsina, proposed to “adjust” the work of the Yekaterinburg Yeltsin Center in order to “achieve greater objectivity.” He said that in the museum “there is a daily injection of destruction of people’s national identity.”

On the eve of the 10th anniversary of Boris Yeltsin's death, supporters of writer Eduard Limonov held a protest in Yekaterinburg entitled "Yeltsin, burn in hell!"

“The Other Russia party demands the exhumation of Boris Yeltsin’s body. There is no place in Russian soil for a monster who destroyed the country and robbed entire generations of our citizens. Our ancestors loaded the cannons with the ashes of False Dmitry. Yeltsin should also be taught the same lesson,” Limonov said.