NKVD
The NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) was the central Soviet security and law-enforcement agency, responsible for the secret police, ordinary militia, border guards and the Gulag prison system. It existed from 1934 until 1946, when it was renamed the MGB. The NKVD carried out the Great Purge of the late 1930s, mass deportations of ethnic groups, and security operations in territories annexed by the Soviet Union.
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Polish president's circle negotiates with far-right MEP Grzegorz Braun over Senate pact
Representatives of Polish President Karol Nawrocki are in talks with associates of Grzegorz Braun about adding Braun's party, Konfederacja Korony Polskiej, to a right-wing electoral pact for the Senate elections. The move would lift the political cordon sanitaire around a figure known for anti-Semitic, pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian actions, including the recent destruction of a UPA memorial in eastern Poland.