Russian officials are reportedly destroying the records of gulag prisoners under a secret order passed in 2014, Russian media have reported.

An estimated 3-12 million victims of Soviet repression were imprisoned in the gulag network of prisons and forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union. Registration records kept by the Museum of the History of the Gulag, now threatened with destruction, include the permanent records of those killed, as well as archival files detailing those who survived the gulag and when they were released.

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Executing a secret government order from 2014, the Russian authorities have reportedly started destroying archival records documenting the imprisonment of people during the Soviet era, according to a letter from Roman Romanov, the director of the Gulag History Museum, addressed to Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Fedotov, the head of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council.

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