The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

The museum was one of the last institutions dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression in Russia.

Russia is turning one of its last major spaces for confronting Soviet-era repression into a showcase for state-sanctioned patriotism. The Gulag History Museum in Moscow — long a rare institutional ...

A visitor to the Gulag History Museum looks at an exhibit near a photo of a Gulag prisoner in Moscow, Russia, on May 21, 2018. (Celestino Arce / NurPhoto via AFP) MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia plans to ...

The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...

The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union - Copyright AFP/File VASILY MAXIMOV The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps ...

Russian prosecutors demanded Tuesday that a respected Gulag historian be sentenced to 15 years in prison over alleged sexual assault in a case his allies say has been trumped up to silence him. Yury ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Russia is converting the Gulag History Museum in Moscow into a new exhibition documenting Nazi crimes against the Soviet Union during World War II, officials said Friday. "The new ...