No End in Sight for Jailed Gulag Historian Yury Dmitriyev

His decades-long research to expose the scale of the late Communist leader’s terror have met with mounting criticism under Russian President Vladimir Putin and landed him in jail in the Karelian capital of Petrozavodsk in northwest Russia.

Russian Stalin Historian Charged With Sexual Assault

Russian authorities have formally indicted historian Yury Dmitriyev on a charge of sexual assault against his adopted daughter following an earlier acquittal on child-pornography charges.

Russian gulag historian faces 9 years in prison

Yury Dmitriyev's supporters say the case against him is an attempt by authorities to muzzle the outspoken historian whose research drew international attention to one of the darkest chapters of Russia's history.

Russian Historian Charged With Child Pornography To Be Released

Yury Dmitriyev has worked for decades to expose crimes committed by the USSR under dictator Josef Stalin. Allies say the charges are political.

Supporters Rally Around Accused Russian Historian Of Stalin's Crimes

Yury Dmitriyev painstakingly assembled a Book of Remembrance that includes the names of 13,000 Great Terror victims.