The Russian leader has wanted a new history curriculum for over a decade and now he has it one written partly by himself and his unabashed apparatchiks.
Memorial International’s partner organization, the Memorial Human Rights Center, campaigns on behalf of political prisoners in modern-day Russia. It is also under legal threat.
Prominent historians and human rights activists were shocked by a Russian Supreme Court ruling Tuesday to close Memorial International, which chronicled historical abuses of the former Soviet Union and identified victims of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purges.
The human rights.