NEWSLINK Washington Post: Closing the doors on a museum of political repression in Russia

The only museum of political repression set in an old Stalinist labor camp has closed, the latest casualty of the Russian government’s effort to silence independent voices. After a three-year struggle with the government of the Perm region, in the western foothills of the Ural Mountains, the nongovernmental organization that operated the museum, known officially as the Memorial Historical Center of Political Repression Perm-36, had its property confiscated. Instead of honoring the millions of political prisoners who suffered and died under Soviet repression, the site will henceforth be called “The Museum of the History of Camps and Workers of the Gulag.”

Washington Post: Susanne Sternthal, Closing the doors on a museum of political repression in Russia