In 2001, Bukovsky was elected President of the "Comitatus pro Libertatibus – Comitati per le Libertà – Freedom Committees" in Florence, an Italian libertarian organisation which promoted an annual "Memento Gulag", or Memorial Day devoted to the Victims of Communism, on 7 November (the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution). The "Memento Gulag" has since been held in Rome, Bucharest, Berlin, La Roche sur Yon and Paris.