Visitors to the Perm-36 museum in the Urals can stroll through a well-preserved prison camp of the Gulag system established by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. But despite the authenticity of the site, the ...

The collapse of the USSR in 1991 led to historical reconsideration, but unlike in Germany or South Africa, there has been no 'truth and reconciliation' process in Russia, and many of its most shameful ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian organization that restored a Soviet-era forced-labor camp as a memorial for the victims of political repression said Friday it is facing legal action aimed at pressuring it to ...

Perm-36, also known as ITK-6, is the only intact facility remaining in Russia from the Soviet-era gulag system of political prisons and labor camps. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Perm-36 was ...

PERM, Russia -- There's one place in the world where can you see the original, preserved barracks of Josef Stalin's gulag. It's the Perm-36 camp in the Urals. The camp was abandoned in 1988 and ...

Russians still find it hard to face their brutal 20th Century. This is a lesson of Perm 36. Perm 36 used to be a maximum-security labor camp for Soviet Union political prisoners, a small but notable ...

MOSCOW – A Russian organization that has restored a Soviet-era forced labor camp as a memorial for the victims of political repression is facing legal action it says is aimed at pressuring the group ...

The Perm-36 Memorial Center of the History of Political Repression was recently shut down, and it remains unclear whether this was because of a recent ideological tendency to rehabilitate the Stalin ...

The closure of parts of the world's only preserved Gulag camp raises fears among Russian liberals of a creeping "rehabilitation" of Joseph Stalin's legacy The infamous labour camp Perm-36 closed as a ...

The Perm-36 Memorial Center of the History of Political Repression has closed, though it is unclear whether the decision is related to a recent ideological tendency to rehabilitate the Stalin era or ...