WHEN SOLZHENITSYN WROTE his great three-volume classic, The Gulag Archipelago, it had a huge impact, particularly in France. There, since the Second World war, a great part of the reading classes had ...

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 ...

Prague-based Russian poet and broadcaster Igor Pomerantsev discusses his close ties to Ukraine, where he still runs a poetry ...