And no repressions. The Gulag History Museum will change its name to the Museum of Memory. 

Gulag History Museum rename to the Museum of Memory of the Victims of the Genocide of the Peoples of the USSR. Its essence will also change. 

"A Museum of Memory will open in Moscow. It will be dedicated to the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people. The exhibition will cover all stages of Nazi war crimes during the Great Patriotic War.", — says a message on the museum’s website.

The new head of the institution will be Natalia Kalashnikova, who has been in charge of the Smolensk Fortress Museum since March. 

Gulag History Museum was closed since November 2024. During an inspection, they allegedly discovered "fire safety violations." The former director of the museum Roman Romanov Putin ruled out from the Human Rights Council. 

In recent years, the authorities have sought to destroy not only museums and organizations that worked on the topic of repression, but the very concept of repression itself. 

For example, in the Tomsk museum "Investigative prison of the NKVD" fired permanent leader Vasily KhanevichThe museum is effectively run by former FSB officer Valery Uimanov, while attempts are being made to shut it down. In Komi closed The only foundation that collected memories of the victims of political repression. The public organization "Memorial," which had been collecting data on mass repressions since the 1980s, was designated a foreign agent and liquidated. The reopened "Memorial" recognized undesirable organizations. In the regions began to cancel events that have been held for decades on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Repression at the end of October.