High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said.

The Cold War-era submarine base was converted to a museum after Ukraine’s independence, but it seems its original purpose has been restored.

on Tuesday damaged the clock of the 17th century clock tower that is part of the Novgorod Kremlin, the press service of the open-air museum told TASS on Wednesday. The clock tower is located in ...