A museum dedicated to the “genocide of the Soviet people” and Nazi war crimes will replace Moscow’s award-winning Gulag ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

Russia is turning one of its last major spaces for confronting Soviet-era repression into a showcase for state-sanctioned patriotism. The Gulag History Museum in Moscow — long a rare institutional ...

The institution was one of the nation's last dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression and contained thousands of artifacts from victims, among them letters and personal belongings.

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union - Copyright AFP/File VASILY MAXIMOV The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps ...

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 ...

The museum was one of the last institutions dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression in Russia.

Moscow residents react after Russian authorities ordered the closure of the city's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put ...