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In Russia, the only archives with repression in the USSR are destroyed on the basis of a secret interdepartmental order, from 2014, reports Kommersant newspaper, citing a statement of Roman Romanov, the director of the Museum of History,…

The European Court of Human Rights has upheld its previous ruling that Soviet repressions against Lithuanian partisans can be treated as genocide.The appeal was submitted by Kęstutis Rakauskas, the defence lawyer for Stanislovas…

This week is the 80th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact – a non-aggression agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Labelled as the honeymoon for two dictators, it divided Europe into Soviet and Nazi spheres…

Russia's first goal at the moment is to bring back many of the countries that made up the former Soviet Union. An example would be Russia's annexation of Crimea. The next target could be Ukraine, which is rich in natural resources,…