On 2 March 2011 at 2 pm (IPN’s Educational Centre, Marszałkowska Street 21/25) Franciszek Gryciuk, Acting President of IPN and Natalia Tomilina, Director of RGANI signed a cooperation agreement between the Institute of National Remembrance and the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI).

The contract covers a research project which includes disclosure of archival documents and publishing them in a collection of documents whose working title is "the Soviet-Polish relations in the 50s and 60 of the Twentieth century. This is the first such collaboration between a Polish institution and RGANI, which opens for the Polish researchers possibility of obtaining important resources on modern Polish history.

The Russian State Archive of Contemporary History was established in October 1991. It collects documents regarding functioning and working of the USSR’s Communist Party, such as these of the Central Committee’s Politburo and documents of individual departments, as well as material  on various leaders of the Soviet Union for the period from 1952 to 1991. In the resources of the international department of the Central Committee there are documents regarding the relationship (business, science, culture, individual leaders, the Politburo, etc.) between the Soviet Union and Poland. The Russian Archive of Contemporary History’s resources are key for the history of Polish-Soviet relations since the early 50s to 1991.