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...

Today is the Day of Remembrance of Political Repression. There is a lot of talk in Moscow about victims and executioners. The Jews were both, and the executioners themselves often ended up in their own meat grinder. Here I am looking at a document that is 75 years old - from 13...

Yana Aliyeva, a 34-year-old marketer from Kiev, first saw the face of her great-grandfather Vasily Khoroshko in a Soviet-era criminal case. Now that the SBU has opened access to many documents of the NKVD and the KGB, she has her own photo from the case on ...