The offensive of the Putin regime on culture is gaining momentum. Immediately after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many artists sharply criticized the aggression and were forced to leave the country. Among those who remained, a systematic “cleansing” of any dissent began. Last summer…
Engineer Viktor Levenshtein experienced a lot in the 100 years of his life. In the 1930s, his parents were arrested, and his father died in a camp; in the 1940s, he himself was arrested - they tried to accuse him of an attempt on Stalin’s life, but in the end he served five years...
On April 11, 2022, Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., a politician and publicist, was arrested. And on April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to 25 years in a strict regime colony, Voice of America reports. Vladimir Kara-Murza is a friend and colleague of the murdered in 2015…
Children of the Gulag filed a lawsuit against the State Duma. They have not been able to return home for 70 years, reports the BBC. “Children of the Gulag” are the children of people repressed during the Soviet years, as well as those born in exile. For the first time, children filed a class action lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Russia...
The Russian government and the State Duma actually refuse to provide the victims of the Stalinist terror with apartments in Moscow and other large cities where their parents lived before the repressions. The right to return home has been guaranteed to them by law since 1991, but the authorities, contrary to the decision of the Constitutional Court and ...
The Russian Constitutional Court again received a complaint about non-compliance with the law on the rehabilitation of victims of political repression. This time it is a class action suit of three women who spent their entire lives in the places of exile of their parents and still cannot return to Moscow. More…
In March, Russian sociologists conducted another survey on the attitude of Russians towards the personality of Joseph Stalin. The level of approval of Stalin and justification of repression reached a historical maximum for the entire period of research. The role of Stalin in history is positively assessed by 70% of Russians, according to a survey by the Levada Center, writes RBC. ...
October 30 in Russia is a day of remembrance for the victims of political repression. On October 29, at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow, the action "Return of Names" is held - from 10 am to 10 pm people take turns reading out the names of those who died during the years of repression. Often names are ...
In Russia, the only archives with data on those repressed in the USSR are being destroyed on the basis of a secret interdepartmental order dated 2014, the Kommersant newspaper reports, citing a statement by Roman Romanov, director of the Gulag History Museum. According to the publication, Romanov wrote a letter with relevant information to the head of the council...
Few have heard of the Moscow cartoonist Khasan Bakhaev, but on October 27 everyone started talking about him. On the eve of the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression, the artist posted on Facebook a collage depicting Tamara Litsinskaya, who was shot in 1937. He placed a photograph of a woman in the "modern ...