RussiaToday caught up with Natalia Solzhenitsyna at a book launch of her husband. The Gulag Lives On - Russia - June 2003... In the forests of southern Siberia, workers are still working as serfs in ...

Although plans were considered as early as the 1880s, its construction began in Eastern Siberia only about 40 ... who came to commemorate its completion. A Gulag on the rocks On Soviet maps ...

The Gulag became infamous for its association with suffering, murder, and terror, giving Siberia its reputation as a place of punishment. Although the Gulag system was abolished in 1957 ...

Freed Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has given his first UK press conference since his release from a penal colony in Siberia in August. This morning he met with Foreign Secretary ...

Millions of people lived and died in the Gulag’s many “islands,” the camps scattered over the vast country. The worst were located in the Kolyma region in northeastern Siberia, ...

IDEAS In Russia’s assault on Ukraine, an echo of my grandparents’ ordeal at Stalin’s hands Their exile to the gulag foreshadowed the deportations of more than a million people taken by ...

In The Long Walk, Slavomir Rawicz described how, during the Second World War, he and a group of prisoners broke out of a gulag in the Soviet Union in 1941. They walked thousands of miles south from ...

JERUSALEM — Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84. The ...

A yawning hole in the Siberian landscape should be a warning about the dangers of extraction. ... gulag prisoners in 1946 found a nest of mummified 30,000-year-old Arctic squirrels.