RussiaToday caught up with Natalia Solzhenitsyna at a book launch of her husband. The Gulag Lives On - Russia - June 2003... In the forests of southern Siberia, workers are still working as serfs in ...

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 ...

Freed Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has given his first UK press conference since his release from a penal ...

In Karaganda, the painful memories of the infamous Soviet gulag here are part and parcel ... working her way up to serve on a committee in Siberia that targeted so-called enemies of the revolution.

The book is crafted in constant reference to and in emulation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead (the book in which Dostoevsky described life in a katorga, the precursor of the gulag, in ...

A woman who was recently honoured for her bravery in the Siberian gulags of World War Two has died aged 89. Alfreda Starza was 11 years old when Soviet forces occupied the part of Poland where her ...

But there is no need to go to Siberia to see the suffering he caused ... many people to think about winning the war and about the Gulag at the same time," the young historian explains.