The Gulag became infamous for its association with suffering, murder, and terror, giving Siberia its reputation ... The Solovki prison camp utilized forced labor as a means of "reeducation." ...

The “Gulag” movie: Lost in Siberia - Geopolitics and big oil play into the capture of a British geologist by the Russian military in Iran at the end of 1945. As soon as they capture him, they ship him ...

Under Soviet rule, dozens of Gulag forced labour camps for political ... Ukrainians to Siberia, holding them in prisons in squalid and dehumanising conditions. One such prison, Polyarny Volk ...

His wife was also targeted, spending four years in the gulag, the Soviet network of harsh prison labor camps. Maria's grandmother ... Podrabinek was exiled to Russia's Siberia in 1978 and then ...

After spending five years in Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka prison after his arrest in 1941, Father Ciszek was sent to Siberia to work in forced labor camps throughout the region. As he wrote in ...

As a result, Yuriy was sentenced to 10 years in a high–security gulag (prison labor camp in the former Soviet Union) in Siberia. Life was tough in Siberia; he worked in the logging industry in ...

banished to a labour camp in Siberia; sentenced to the gulag. Today Russia has the highest rates of prisoners in Europe. While other things in Russia change, prison culture maintains its ...

Anne Applebaum's new history of the Gulag begins with a disclaimer ... A history that draws explicit comparisons between Stalin's prison camps and those created in the Forties for Hitler's ...

The town is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Vorkuta, whose coal mines were among the harshest of the Soviet Gulag prison-camp system. Navalny, who is noted for sharply humorous comments ...

As in the Gulag during its heyday, slave labor is one purpose of these camps. Some Ukrainians in captivity ... that describes plans to build 25 new prison colonies and six detention centers ...