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In Russia, a gulag museum was forced to close. "We no longer have access to the museum," said Yoshkar-Ola museum director in western Russia Nikolai Arakcheyev on Friday. There was an attempt to confiscate the coins. The local Ministry of Culture, on the other hand, said the building had been closed because it was a danger to visitors.
The manager assured that only the roof needed to be repaired. "They want to destroy the museum, which is a source of historical truth and freedom," said Arakcheyev. The former soldier, who worked for several years for the Memorial Human Rights Organization, has been studying for years the Stalinist crimes and the gulag system of criminal camps and working in the Soviet Union.
Arakchejev tries in particular to find the remains of the victims. the forests around the city were slaughtered by the hundreds. Under Vladimir Putin, dealing with Stalinist crimes is becoming more and more undesirable, especially since Putin sees himself in Stalin's tradition. Historians researching this period are under pressure on many occasions. The film "Death of Stalin", released last year, is banned in Russia, and a researcher reported in June that the authorities had destroyed the prison documents for the Gulag
Oleg Senzow suffered a crisis
and the harassment of politically undesirable cultural institutions and cultural workers in Russia has recently increased significantly. Recently, the house arrest of the dissident theater and director Kirill Serebrennikow has been extended. Ukrainian filmmaker and critic Maidan Oleg Senzov, innocently serving a 20-year prison sentence in a Siberian prison colony, has been on a hunger strike since May demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners held by Russians. His condition, reports the "FAZ" in his Saturday issue, is now critical. According to his lawyer, Senzow consumes only a small amount of nutrients a day and has already suffered a heart attack. He refuses to be artificially fed to the hospital.
Nevertheless, protesters apparently work on his piece "The Number", published in the During the World Cup in Russia, there were numerous international protests against the imprisonment of Senzov, including French President Emmanuel Macron, but all were in vain, President Vladimir Putin did not was impressed by no pardon. Appendices. AFP / Tsp
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