As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past ...

The strike and the state’s response have exacerbated the already brutal conditions in the state prison system.

Repatriation — The Dark Side of World War II, Part 6 - Over a million Russians were returned against their will, and most of them were either immediately killed or sent to the gulag, where many of ...

People accused of treason, espionage, extremism, and terrorism could soon end up in detention centres controlled by Russia's ...

RUSSIA has sentenced British fight James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19 years in the gulag after he was brutally captured in ...

‘I hope we get the nice gulag.’” “Then every once in a while ... “Dear Congress: We need a supplemental to feed the Vindmans in federal prison,” he wrote in one.

It’s been six months since he was released from the IK-6 colony in Omsk, Siberia, a maximum security prison roughly 2,800 ... since his release from the gulag where he thought he would die.

And for North Koreans outside the camps, the fear of the gulag ensures their loyalty to a paranoid regime that's highly conscious of its own questionable long-term outlook. Even so, a combination ...

The practice dates back to the Soviet era's "Gulag" system, where convicts were assigned to work in the riskiest and most "lucrative" sectors of the Soviet Union's economy, Sukhankin said. Prison ...