FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 30, 2015 file photo, visitors look at an exposition at the opening of the Gulag history museum in Moscow, Russia. A museum studying the history of Soviet prison camps said ...

A Russian court has fined the organisation behind Russia's renowned Perm-36 Museum, which is housed in a former Gulag and is the only Soviet labour camp in Russia to have been preserved as a museum, ...

A Russian museum dedicated to the Gulag has been forced to close, its director said Friday, in the latest case of authorities putting pressure on those researching the Soviet-era camps. "We no longer ...

MOSCOW (AP) — An independent Russian organization says it has been ousted from the Gulag prison camp museum that it has run from 1992, leaving “no talk of Stalin.” Viktor Shmyrov, director for the ...

The word gulag sends shivers down the spine of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived under Stalinist terror. Soviet history is ragged with deportations, forced ...

Russia's Perm-36 museum issued a statement Monday that it is "ceasing its activities and beginning the process of self-liquidation" following months of the government pressuring the museum to close.

PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests of Western Siberia is under new management -- and it's easy to feel the difference when touring the new team's recently opened first exhibition.

MOSCOW – A museum studying the history of Soviet prison camps says it has discovered a recent, secret Russian order instructing officials to destroy data on prisoners. Up to 17 million people were ...

MOSCOW – An independent Russian organization says it has been ousted from the Gulag prison camp museum that it has run from 1992. Viktor Shmyrov, director for the Perm-36 museum in central Russia, ...

Visitors look at an exposition at the opening of the Gulag history museum in Moscow, Russia. A museum studying the history of Soviet prison camps said Friday, June 8, 2018 that it has discovered a ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A museum studying Soviet prison camps said Friday it has discovered a secret Russian order in 2014 instructing officials to destroy data on prisoners — a move it said “could have ...