The Russian government’s commission on state secrets has rejected a call from over 60,000 Russians to open the archive of Soviet secret police forces and spy agencies, detailing their activities from 1917 to 1991, news website Meduza reports. The files will instead remain classified until 2044.
Activist group Komanda 29 collected 60,342 signatures calling for top secret files to be released from the Soviet law enforcement and intelligence agencies starting with Vladimir Lenin’s Cheka, to the NKVD and the KGB. Although in 1992 then-President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree to move all Soviet classified files dealing with repressions into …read more
Source: Newsweek
