History Russian prosecutors demand 15-year prison sentence for Gulags historian follow-up Katia Patin
History Decoding China’s claims about Uyghur identity A new government white paper says Islam was introduced to Uyghur culture by force. Scholars and activists say the claims mark an attempt to rewrite history feature Isobel Cockerell
History When Soviet workers rose up and troops opened fire: a history Russian authorities try to conceal A search for the facts behind the 1962 Novocherkassk workers’ strike leads to locked doors, empty walls and tearful memories dispatch Polina Efimova
History A Different Country An offer to play for Russia’s rugby team triggers a reckoning with Soviet history and the discovery of a Georgian identity feature Matthew Janney
History Who were the 27,000 victims of Russia’s worst Holocaust-era crime? feature Polina Efimova and Katia Patin
History Digging up a new story for Stalin Kremlin-backed historians are trying to link Finland to a mass grave of thousands of victims of the Great Terror feature Maria Georgieva
History Russia picks fight with Armenia over Nazi collaboration Armenians responded by vigorous defenses that mostly glossed over the liberation hero’s alliance with the Third Reich dispatch Joshua Kucera
History To bury, or not to bury? Russia undecided about legendary Hadji Murad’s skull The Kremlin set up an interagency commission to consider whether to reunite Murad’s skull with his body dispatch Giorgi Lomsadze
History Why Russia accuses Poland of monumental ingratitude A Polish government program to remove Soviet-era “monuments of gratitude” has provoked a furious Kremlin reaction feature Matthew Luxmoore
History In Putin’s Russia, Ivan the Terrible becomes Ivan the Terrific As Russia’s past is remade, its cruelest leader is a figure to admire not abhor Ekaterina Ponomareva
