What a brand new Stalin statue says about Russia’s try to reshape historical past

A model new statue of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has been unveiled at a Metro station in Moscow.

In the meantime, an adviser to President Putin lately argued that the Soviet Union the truth is nonetheless exists, due to a procedural error within the means of dissolving it.

Greater than three years on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg considers how Russia is making an attempt to reshape its previous to justify the current.