people
Against Oblivion
We unite to preserve digital traces, protect the right to truth, and build infrastructures
of memory.
8–9 Nov 2025
Berlin, NYC, Online
people
Against Oblivion
We unite to preserve digital traces,
protect the right to truth, and build infrastructures of memory.
8–9 Nov 2025
Berlin, NYC, Online
people
Against Oblivion
We unite to preserve digital traces,
protect the right to truth, and build infrastructures of memory.
8–9 Nov 2025
Berlin, NYC, Online
Manifesto
Memory has become a battlefield. The disappearance of materials
is a weapon. RIMA Fest is our response: we gather forces
to preserve digital traces, protect the right to truth, and turn fragmented efforts into a shared infrastructure of memory.
Register now
Manifesto
Memory has become a battlefield. The disappearance of materials
is a weapon. RIMA Fest is our response: we gather forces
to preserve digital traces, protect the right to truth, and turn fragmented efforts into a shared infrastructure of memory.
Register now
Manifesto
Memory has become a battlefield. The disappearance of materials
is a weapon. RIMA Fest is our response: we gather forces
to preserve digital traces, protect the right to truth, and turn fragmented efforts into a shared infrastructure of memory.
Register now
What to expect
november 22, New york
15 NYC
Bard NYC
Preserving the Invisible
Host: Vera Shengeliya,
Ilia Venyavkin
A world-café gathering to safeguard censored and threatened community memory.
Registration
november 9, 0nline
Registration
Registration
Registration
Registration
16 CET/09 CST/10 NYC
20 CET/13 CST/14 NYC
Online
Online
RIMA Highlights and Tools: Tour for Researchers and Journalists
Stories You Can’t Erase: A Community Conversation
on CAIMA
From Archive
to Insight: RIMA Fellows Showcase Their Work
As long as we remember, we resist: Stories on How Memory Defies Oppression 
Host: Tamara Velikodneva
Hosts: Ramon Zamora,
Ilia Venyavkin
Host: Ilia Venyavkin
Host: Vera Shengeliya
Opportunities for researchers and an outline of possible forms
of collaboration with RIMA.
Journalists, activists, students, and anyone curious will come together to share stories, ask questions, and talk about how archives can become tools
of resistance. 
An invitation for students to imagine their own projects with RIMA.
The session spotlights creators
of digital archival projects from different parts of the world who
are preserving community memory under pressure. In a fast, focused lightning-talks format, each speaker has 10 minutes to share the story
of their project: the problem they faced, the preservation tactics they chose, the risks they navigated,
and the impact for their
communities.
november 8, berlin
15:00 – 17:00 CET 
Das Werkhaus
Robot Thieves vs. Robot Investigators:
A Community
Talk on Scraping 
Host: Filipp Smirnov
Speakers: Max Donheiser, data journalist at the Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab; Friedrich Lindenberg, Founder
of OpenSanctions; Simon
Wörpel, Founder of Data
and Research Center.
An open community talk exploring how the same bots that threaten independent media can also power investigative journalism and transparency.
Wait list
Registration is closed
18:00 – 20:00 CET
Das Werkhaus
RIMA presents
the digital archive
of Afisha magazine
Hosts: Aleksandr Gorbachev,
Ilya Krasilshchik
A presentation unveiling the newly digitized Afisha archive, celebrating the magazine’s creative legacy and its influence on Russian urban culture
and media (The event will be held in Russian).
What to expect
november 9, online
november 22, new york
november 8, berlin
15 NYC
Bard NYC
Preserving the Invisible
Host: Vera Shengeliya, Ilia Venyavkin
A world-café gathering to safeguard censored and threatened community memory.
Registration
20 CET/13 CST/14 NYC
Online
Stories You Can’t Erase:
A Community Conversation
on CAIMA
Hosts: Ramon Zamora, Ilia Venyavkin
Journalists, activists, students, and anyone curious
will come together to share stories, ask questions,
and talk about how archives can become tools
of resistance. 
Registration
16 CET/09 CST/10 NYC
Online
RIMA Highlights and Tools: Tour
for Researchers and Journalists
Host: Tamara Velikodneva
Opportunities for researchers and an outline
of possible forms of collaboration with RIMA.
Registration
From Archive to Insight: RIMA Fellows Showcase Their Work
Host: Ilia Venyavkin
An invitation for students to imagine their
own projects with RIMA.
Registration
As long as we remember,
we resist: Stories on How Memory Defies Oppression 
Host: Vera Shengeliya
The session spotlights creators of digital archival projects from different parts of the world who
are preserving community memory under pressure. In a fast, focused lightning-talks format, each
speaker has 10 minutes to share the story of their project: the problem they faced, the preservation tactics they chose, the risks they navigated,
and the impact for their communities.
Registration
18:00 – 20:00 CET
Das Werkhaus
RIMA presents the digital archive of Afisha magazine
Hosts: Aleksandr Gorbachev, Ilya Krasilshchik
A presentation unveiling the newly digitized Afisha archive, celebrating the magazine’s creative legacy and its influence on Russian urban culture
and media (The event will be held in Russian).
Registration is closed
15:00 – 17:00 CET 
Das Werkhaus
Robot Thieves vs. Robot Investigators: A Community
Talk on Scraping 
Host: Filipp Smirnov
Speakers: Max Donheiser, data journalist at the Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab; Friedrich Lindenberg, Founder of OpenSanctions; Simon Wörpel, Founder of Data and Research Center.
An open community talk exploring how the same bots that threaten independent media can also power investigative journalism and transparency.
Wait list
What to expect
november 9, online
november 22, new york
november 8, berlin
15 NYC
Bard NYC
Preserving the Invisible
Host: Vera Shengeliya, Ilia Venyavkin
A world-café gathering to safeguard censored and threatened community memory.
Registration
20 CET/13 CST/14 NYC
Online
Stories You Can’t Erase:
A Community Conversation
on CAIMA
Hosts: Ramon Zamora, Ilia Venyavkin
Journalists, activists, students, and anyone curious
will come together to share stories, ask questions,
and talk about how archives can become tools
of resistance. 
Registration
16 CET/09 CST/10 NYC
Online
RIMA Highlights and Tools: Tour
for Researchers and Journalists
Host: Tamara Velikodneva
Opportunities for researchers and an outline
of possible forms of collaboration with RIMA.
Registration
From Archive to Insight: RIMA Fellows Showcase Their Work
Host: Ilia Venyavkin
An invitation for students to imagine their
own projects with RIMA.
Registration
As long as we remember,
we resist: Stories on How Memory Defies Oppression 
Host: Vera Shengeliya
The session spotlights creators of digital archival projects from different parts of the world who
are preserving community memory under pressure. In a fast, focused lightning-talks format, each
speaker has 10 minutes to share the story of their project: the problem they faced, the preservation tactics they chose, the risks they navigated,
and the impact for their communities.
Registration
18:00 – 20:00 CET
Das Werkhaus
RIMA presents the digital archive of Afisha magazine
Hosts: Aleksandr Gorbachev, Ilya Krasilshchik
A presentation unveiling the newly digitized Afisha archive, celebrating the magazine’s creative legacy and its influence on Russian urban culture
and media (The event will be held in Russian).
Registration is closed
15:00 – 17:00 CET 
Das Werkhaus
Robot Thieves vs. Robot Investigators: A Community
Talk on Scraping 
Host: Filipp Smirnov
Speakers: Max Donheiser, data journalist at the Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab; Friedrich Lindenberg, Founder of OpenSanctions; Simon Wörpel, Founder of Data and Research Center.
An open community talk exploring how the same bots that threaten independent media can also power investigative journalism and transparency.
Wait list
SPEAKERS
  • Max Donheiser
    Data journalist at the Tagesspiegel Innovation Lab
  • Friedrich Lindenberg
    Founder of OpenSanctions
  • Simon Wörpel
    Founder and Director of Technology
    in DaRC
  • Mark Graham
    Director, the Wayback Machine
  • Tobias Natterer
    DDB Berlin Senior Copywriter, co-author of The Uncensored Library
  • Jacs Rodriguez
    Community archivist at Visual AIDS
  • Lesia Pcholka
    Founder and Project Curator of the VEHA Archive
  • Olivia Newsome
    Special collections coordinator with the Lesbian Herstory Archives
  • Noémi Lévy-Aksu
    Director of the Memory and Peace Studies Program at Hafıza Merkezi (Truth Justice Memory Center), Istanbul
  • Juan Luis Font
    Director and host of the daily radio talk show “ConCriterio”, co-founder of El Periodico newspaper in Guatemala
  • Angélica Cárcamo
    Director of the Central American Network of Journalists
  • Quimy de León
    Journalist, founder of Prensa Comunitaria and Ruda
  • Ramon Zamora
    Coordinator of Central American Independent Media Archive
  • Ilia Venyavkin
    Program Director at Kronika
  • Filipp Smirnov
    Journalist, product manager at Newsloom (Kronika)
  • Alexander Gorbashev
    Editor-in-Chief at StraightForward Foundation
  • Ilia Krasilshik
    Ex Yandex.Lavka CEO, ex Meduza Publisher
  • Tamara Velikodneva
    Curator & Product Manager at RIMA
  • Alena Struzh
    Press officer at Reporters Without Borders Germany, researcher
  • Dasha Efimova
    Intern at Kronika
  • Anna Eliseeva
    Producer, partnerships manager, philologist at Kronika
  • Vera Shengelia
    Journalist, Director of Institutional Partnerships at Kronika, a researcher at Bard College
locations
Berlin
Das Werkhaus
NYC
Bard
college
online
live-streamed talks and workshops
locations
Berlin
Das Werkhaus
NYC
Bard
college
online
live-streamed talks and workshops
ABOUT RIMA
RIMA stands for Russian Independent Media Archive.
We want to preserve the work that independent Russian journalists have been doing for more than 20 years. This is historical evidence. RIMA is a part of Kronika project …
Explore the archive
Explore the archive
about rima
RIMA stands for Russian Independent Media Archive.
We want to preserve the work that independent Russian
journalists have been doing for more than 20 years.
This is historical evidence. RIMA is a part of Kronika project …
Explore the archive
about rima
RIMA stands for Russian Independent Media Archive.
We want to preserve the work that independent Russian
journalists have been doing for more than 20 years.
This is historical evidence. RIMA is a part of Kronika project.
Stay in touch
stay in touch
© 2025 RIMA
contact@rima.media
© 2025 RIMA
contact@rima.media