What is Arseny Roginsky?
[[File:Arseni Roginski 04-2012.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Roginsky in April 2012]] '''Arseny Borisovich Roginsky''' ({{lang-ru|Арсе́ний Бори́сович Роги́нский}}; 30 March 1946 – 18 December 2017) was a Soviet dissident<ref>{{cite news|author=Buckley, Neil|title=Stalin's horrors still throw Russia into turmoil|url=http://app.ft.com/cms/s/fc22ef7e-701b-11e0-bea7-00144feabdc0.html|work=[[Financial Times]]|date=26 April 2011}}</ref> and [[Russians|Russian]] [[historian]]. He was born in Velsk, a town in the Arkhangelsk Region (Northwest Russia). From 1975 until his arrest in August 1981, he was editor of ''Memory'' (Pamyat), a [[samizdat]], i.e. uncensored, almanac of historical studies that was published abroad after 1978. Roginsky was sentenced to four years in a corrective-labour camp and was released in 1985. During [[perestroika]] Roginsky was one of the founders of Memorial, an international historical and [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] society. that came into existence in the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|author=Glasser, Susan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4855-2004May31.html|title=Putin talk worries independent groups|date=1 June 2004|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=22 December 2011}}</ref> He served as its head from 1998 until his death.<ref>{{cite book|author=Shevtsova, Lilia|title=Lonely power: why Russia has failed to become the West and the West is weary of Russia|date=2010|publisher=Carnegie Endowment|isbn=978-0870032981|page=301|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ejatb7aL6o8C&pg=PA301}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Parfitt, Tom|title=Proportion of Russians who respect Stalin is growing, poll suggests|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11506970/Proportion-of-Russians-who-respect-Stalin-is-growing-poll-suggests.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|date=31 March 2015}}</ref> A first attempt was made by the authorities to close Memorial in 2014. If Memorial was closed, commented Roginsky at the time, then the organisation's