“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Yekaterina Maksimova can't afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it's probably the most efficient route. That's ...
Poisoned twice and sentenced to the longest term ever handed down to a Russian government opponent, Kara-Murza details his ...
A FORMER Brit soldier has been jailed for 13 years in one of Vladimir Putin’s hellhole gulags after being captured fighting ...
The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps set up in the Soviet Union - Copyright AFP/File VASILY MAXIMOV The gulag was a vast network of prison labour camps ...
Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...
Gulag Historian Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Testing in Russia MOSCOW — A Russian historian of the Gulag is scheduled to undergo enforced psychiatric testing this week, apparently having ruffled ...