On January 11, the Russian nationalist publication Zavtra published an interview with Sergei Nosov, governor of Russia’s Magadan region, who claimed that Russia has never killed anyone for dissent.
Polygraph: Russian politician says Russia never killed dissidents, later apologizes
Millions of Soviet citizens were executed by secret police or died in forced agricultural collectivisation and Gulag labour camps during Stalin's rule from the 1920s until his death in 1953.
