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 ...

Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

“No one can survive 25 years in a Russian gulag, especially after the two poisonings I’ve been through,” he said. “It was a death sentence.” Talking about the prisoner swap – which ...

Their plight is truly horrific. Ukraine has identified almost 16,000 names of people lost in a gulag of 180 prisons in ...

And now, two months after his release from a Siberian gulag in a historic prisoner swap, the Russian-British political activist is still speaking his truth to anyone, and any country, who will listen.

In 2014, it was shut down again. Russian ex-prisoners and historians published memoirs and histories of the Gulag, held conferences, created exhibitions, made documentaries. Then, over the past ...

Getting the look right for Genek was also incredibly important considering that he goes through the most drastic physical transformation of the five Kurc siblings. “He’s the most established ...

The Gulag system was abolished in 1957, but the very word still invokes the fear and repression that swept throughout the Soviet Union during the first half of the 20th century.

According to the Russian Prison Service, Alexei Navalny was taking a walk when he felt unwell, quickly lost consciousness and prison medical staff were unable to revive him.