MOSCOW - Russia's highest court on April 2 refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and set up the GULAG forced labor camps.
Reuters: Russian court refuses to rehabilitate Soviet-era commissar Yagoda
People walk inside the Solovetsky Monastery on the Solovetsky Islands, scene of the most notorious Soviet prison camp, later described as the \u201cmother of the gulag\u201d by dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, on July 11, 2008.
