The museum was one of the last institutions dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression in Russia.
The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.
The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...
Vladimir Putin’s move to shut the Moscow museum and spotlight Nazi crimes revives debate on selective history. From Stalin’s ...