Russians commemorated the victims of Stalinist terror on Sunday, more than 20 months into Moscow s Ukraine offensive that has been accompanied at home by a major crackdown on dissent.
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Hundreds of deserted single-industry towns dot the vast and harsh expanse of Siberia, relics of the Soviet Union s reliance on gulag labour for mineral extraction.