“Voroshilovgrad” and “Stalino” On 16 April, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Russian occupation administration of Luhansk, signed a decree named “About using the name Voroshilovgrad City” that orders to use...
Today, Russians of good will paused to remember those who had suffered and died in Stalin’s GULAG. This commemoration took many forms but one of the most significant risks being lost: a new map of “The GULAG in Moscow”...
Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey Prudovsky has discovered that in September 2014, a classified order went out to destroy card files on GULAG victims, making the use...
Stalin is enjoying a rebirth in the Russian Federation, one that enjoys the support of the population, according to polls, but that has generated anger or even fear among the intelligentsia, the editors of Nezavisimaya gazeta say. And if...
The Kremlin has been very busy lately, inside and outside of Russia. Every day it seems something remarkable comes to light about Putin or Russia that just begs for comment if not deep analysis. A week or so ago, the jaw-dropping...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
