Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to ...

Even before Russia effectively banned political dissent following its all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Gulag History Museum in Moscow felt like it was running on borrowed time.

Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced Wednesday that it’s temporarily suspending operations starting November 14 due to “fire safety violations.” “As a result of an inspection by specialists from ...

On Wednesday evening, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced that it would close indefinitely due to “fire safety violations” discovered during an inspection. Citing the city’s Culture Department, ...

She spent over a decade after the end of the Second World War behind the Iron Curtain and survived, among other things, 6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s.