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 ...

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

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

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment ...

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

the dissident remembers ‘less and less’ from all the savagery he experienced in the Russian gulag, but there is one memory that keeps playing over and over in his head. ‘The way the human ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to ...

The Kremlin closes the Gulag History Museum He added that the Kremlin currently employs methods reminiscent of the communist era. He explained that for the past two years, Russian authorities have ...

RUSSIA has sentenced British PoW James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19 years in the gulag after he was brutally captured in the Kursk region. The ex-British Army squaddie was sentenced by Russian ...