Russian investigators have launched a criminal probe of the dismantled Memorial civil rights group into “rehabilitation of Nazism,” the RBC news website reported Saturday. Russia’s veterans group filed the complaint on the eve of the Supreme Court's December order to close Memorial, which raises awareness of Soviet-era repressions, over its refusal to label itself a “foreign agent” in its published materials. The veterans group had asked authorities to investigate Memorial for “denying, concealing and falsifying the crimes of Nazi accomplices by memorializing them as victims of political repression,” according to a January statement on Memorial’s website. It claims that 19...
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