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 ...

Robbie and Tali Friedman, a married couple, share remarkably similar family histories marked by the Holocaust. All four of ...

As Rockford marks the Holocaust Memorial Observance May 4, one woman shares her family's harrowing story of survival.

Freed Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has given his first UK press conference since his release from a penal colony in Siberia in August. This morning he met with Foreign Secretary ...

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 ...

These perceptions are largely determined by its vast, frozen landscapes, home to one of the earth’s sparsest populations, but also by its centuries-long history tied to exile, imprisonment and gulags.

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 ...

Mosquitos freezing cold mysterious taiga Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners have suffered To document abandoned Gulags in Siberia you have to walk miles in their shoes This film ...