PETROZAVODSK, Russia – Five years ago this month, historian Yury Dmitriyev, the local head of the human rights group Memorial in the northwestern region of Karelia, was arrested at his apartment ...

Perm-36, Russia’s only Gulag memorial, has announced its first exhibit since the state seized it from a local nonprofit. What was a museum of Soviet political repression will now showcase the ...

The most important fact about Memorial, the Russian research and human-rights organization that the Kremlin wants to shut down, is this: no one knows exactly how many people fell victim to Soviet ...

During this period tens of millions of people are believed to have perished in the Gulag forced labour camps. In 1990, a Memorial team travelled to the Solovky camp in the north of Russia ...

Since then, she has taken solace from the work of Memorial International, which focuses on preserving the memory of the estimated 20 million people imprisoned in the gulag between 1929 and the ...

During the decade I spent researching the history of the Soviet Gulag, I ran into Memorial historians and activists all over Russia, including in their one-person “office” in Syktyvkar and in ...

A new exhibit in the Global Museum on Communism, a project of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will feature an online 3-D gulag experience. The trailer to “The Gulag Exhibit ...

These archives contain the testimonies of returnees from the gulag, a collecting project initiated in the late 1980s by local branches of Memorial, a human rights organization founded at the height of ...

Memorial made it possible to retrieve and catalog the names of 2,614,978 victims of the Gulag, before developing a more activist approach toward history, mobilizing a hundred or so active regional ...

The Gulag History Museum in Moscow has been shut ... It recently hosted a memorial event for victims of Stalinist purges on October 30. The event, called “Prayer of Remembrance,” replaced ...

During this period tens of millions of people are believed to have perished in the Gulag forced labour camps. In 1990, a Memorial team travelled to the Solovky camp in the north of Russia ...