On Saturday, March 5, 2011, Policy Forum Armenia will hold an event honoring the memory of a prominent Soviet-era dissident, a member of the “7 patriots”, Vigen Babayan. Jailed in early-1960s for underground activities aimed at proclaiming independent Armenia and recognizing the Genocide, the “7 patriots”—as the group became known in Armenia following their trial and imprisonment—laid the foundations for independence and pro-democracy movement in Armenia and elsewhere in the USSR.