The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation received The European Excellence Awards 2025 for the Museum of Civilian Voices documentary project

One of the most prestigious awards in the field of communications – The European Excellence Awards – announced its 2025 winners. The documentary project “Diaries of Civilians: Voices of Those Who Survived and Those Who Did Not” of the Museum of Civilian Voices founded by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation won in the “Ukraine” category.

The full list of 2025 winners is published here: https://www.excellence-awards.com/winner-2025/

For the Museum of Civilian Voices, the recognition from The European Excellence Awards confirms the high quality of its work and helps draw even more attention to its important mission – documenting the stories of civilians affected by russia’s war against Ukraine.

This award reinforces a key principle:  every person’s voice matters. It is the power of these voices that allows Europe to hear the truth about what Ukraine is experiencing, and personal experiences and tragedies must never be reduced to mere statistics. The voice of Ukraine, composed of thousands of individual stories, becomes a powerful testimony to the resilience of the people and a reminder that behind every story is a human life worthy of being heard.

The documentary project “Diaries of Civilians: Voices of Those Who Survived and Those Who Did Not” is presented in the multimedia space of the Museum of Civilian Voices on the first floor of the Kyiv City History Museum. It is based on the real diaries of Kateryna Savenko and Volodymyr Velychko from Mariupol – testimonies of people with different fates who, through their personal records, conveyed the tragedy of the war firsthand.

This documentary project will run until the end of December 2025 at the Kyiv City History Museum. Visit the exhibition at:  7 Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, Kyiv.

The European Excellence Awards recognizes the best European projects that stand out for creativity, impact, and professional mastery in public relations, marketing, and corporate communications.

The Museum of Civilian Voices is a primary source of truth about the lives of civilians during the war.  Since 2014, it has been collecting testimonies of those affected by russia’s war against Ukraine – today the collection contains over 140,000 stories.

Watch and read them here: https://civilvoicesmuseum.org/