A Russian museum dedicated to the Gulag has been forced to close, its director said Friday, in the latest case of authorities putting pressure on those researching the Soviet-era camps.
"We no longer have access to the museum, and yesterday there was an attempt to seize the exhibits, probably at the request of the town hall," Nikolai Arakcheyev, director of the institute in Yoshkar-Ola, western Russia, told AFP.