The Kremlin has said it is not 'on the same path' as Russians who fled the country after Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine and have sided with Kyiv.Yesterday, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, suggested that Russians who supported Ukraine and now wanted to come back should be sent to a far eastern region known for its Stalin-era prison camps.
Magadan is synonymous with the gulag - a network of forced labour camps where Russians were used as slave labour under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.Asked about the comments today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a regular news briefing that Mr Volodin had in mind those who 'took a pronounced anti-Russian position and sided with the Kyiv regime'.'Yes, indeed, we are not on the same path with these people,' Mr Peskov said.