Vera Vasilieva: A letter from Yury Dmitriev
14 November 2022 by Vera Vasilieva Source: Facebook I received a letter from Yury Alekseevich Dmitriev dated 24 October which struck me deeply by the contrast between its contents and…
14 November 2022 by Vera Vasilieva Source: Facebook I received a letter from Yury Alekseevich Dmitriev dated 24 October which struck me deeply by the contrast between its contents and…
1 July 2022 by Reuben Woolley Reuben Woolley reviews Rethinking the Gulag: Identities, Sources, Legacies, edited by Alan Barenberg and Emily D. Johnson, Indiana University Press, 2022, pp320. ISBN 9780253059611. The Gulag…
7 February 2022 Grigory Vaypan is a human rights lawyer On the ruling by a court in Stavropol region in favour of one of the ‘Children of the Gulag.’ Source:…
Week-ending 25 June 2021 On 22 June 2021 Moscow's Gulag History Museum was awarded the Council of Europe's Museum Prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg’s Palais Rohan. Source: PACE, 23…
Week-ending 19 February 2021 On 16 February St. Petersburg's Third Court of Cassation upheld on appeal the 13-year prison sentence handed down to Yury Dmitriev, Gulag historian and long-time head…
13 January 2021 by Valeriya Ratnikova Source: Dozhd More than 100 civil society figures have appealed to the president with a request to provide housing to children of victims of…
Photo of Mikhail Fedotov 13 January 2021 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] More than 100 public and cultural figures have signed an open letter to Russian leaders, seeking…
Week-ending 15 January 2021 Photo: Perm 36. Wikipedia "The Russian State still has a chance to repay the debt owing to the 'children of the Gulag,' enabling them at last…
Week-ending 11 December 2020 Building of the White Sea-Baltic Canal. Source: GULAG History Museum The GULAG History Museum this week has requested permission from the authorities in Magadan to turn what…