'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns


'Erasing history': Russia closes top rights group, capping year of crackdowns
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December 29, 2021 at 07:28AM
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Russia's Supreme Court ordered the country's oldest human rights group to disband on Tuesday for breaking a law requiring it to act as "a foreign agent", capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet era. The legal assault on Memorial, which documents and keeps alive the memory of Josef Stalin's 1937-38 "Great Terror" among other episodes, is an attempt to whitewash Soviet Russia's darkest chapters, critics say.

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