On January 29, 2025, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to historical memory in the context of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Yuri Kanner, President of the Russian Jewish Congress; Alexey Miller, Professor at the European University in St. Petersburg, Academic Director of the Center for the Study of Cultural Memory and Symbolic Politics; Jean-Pierre Page, French author and trade union activist; Maria Pavlova, Senior Researcher, Baltic Sea Region Integrated Research Group, IMEMO RAS , participated. The event was moderated by Anton Bespalov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.