The U.S. Embassy did not name the hostages. ”I have now been in the Iraq gulag system for almost two months,” said one of the hostages. ”We are virtual prisoners of Iraq.” The hostage ...

"There was a regular exchange of dramatic troupes," says Petkevich, who wrote a book about her gulag stage career in The Life of a Mismatched Boot. "The camp officials took pride in showing off ...

Shortly thereafter, the narrator is branded a fascist and sent to the gulag; Lev joins him there ... coherence from the violent demands of his life; there is nothing he can do to make himself ...

This interview introduces the work of acclaimed historian Dan Healey, who sheds light on how gay men survived the Soviet Gulag, their life afterwards and different attitudes in the USSR to gay men ...

Just a few weeks ago, I was absolutely certain that I would die in Putin’s gulag. And now I’m sitting at home and speaking with you. And I’m here with my family, and I could hug my kids ...

The daughter of a Gulag prisoner, the 72-year-old is among the ageing children of those sent to the infamous Soviet camps who were promised compensation they have yet to receive. Already a subscriber?

"Most of the Western people accept it as a gulag museum and Russians think of ... "Instead, they want to escape from modern life, like the hippies did." Sergei Oyama, from St Petersburg, was ...

"A gulag," "the salt mines," "punishment detail," - from the descriptions they give of it, MPs mostly don't relish their work on the committees which examine the detail of the hybrid bills which ...

The daughter of a Gulag prisoner, the 72-year-old is among ... a village five hours' drive from Moscow. It's a difficult life. They cut wood to fuel a stove that heats the room and their toilet ...