Russian authorities ordered the closure of Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression.
- The closure was officially put down to alleged violations of fire safety regulations.
- Established in 2001, the Central Moscow Museum brings together official state documents with family photographs and objects from gulag victims.
- The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union. Millions of alleged traitors and enemies of the state were sent there, many to their deaths, in what historians recognise as a period of massive political repression.
