Most records relating to the gulag -- the brutal network of forced ... while the heavy labor was carried out by prisoners. Some remains, like this shack that once probably housed guards, have ...

High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning ...

In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's description of the Soviet labour camps in his book, The Gulag Archipelago caused an international sensation. Through archives and interviews, we take a fascinating ...

Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison system. During an escape attempt in 1954 he spent five months hiding in a freezing mine with two ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the precise nature of the “secrets” Viktoria allegedly passed remains undisclosed, her conviction comes amid heightened ...