Russia now has more political prisoners than USSR did in 1976
Two years ago, Russian activist Vladimir Kara-Murza pointed out that Vladimir Putin’s Russia had more political prisoners than…
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victims of political repressions
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Why Ukraine should support Yuri Dmitriev, Russian historian unearthing Stalin’s repressions
On July 22, a court in Russia’s Karelia region sentenced 64-year-old historian Yuri Dmitriev. The man was found…
Ukraine launches free consultancy to help find info on victims of Soviet repressions
Source: website of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory with a direct quote from Ihor Kulyk, Director of…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…
134 bodies of NKVD victims unearthed in Ivano-Frankivsk
In the summer of 2017, while laying cables along the street, engineers stumbled upon several human remains. Pamyat…