Memorial Human Rights Heart, the main human rights group that was closed in Russia, documented right now’s Russian political prisoners, in addition to previous Soviet human rights atrocities. As Nick Schifrin studies, the banning of Memorial comes nearly precisely 30 years after the autumn of the Soviet Union, and is a part of the Kremlin’s battle over historical past.
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