Sitting in the lobby of a central London hotel, Vladimir Kara-Murza is in a valiant mood. It’s been six months since he was released from the IK-6 colony in Omsk, Siberia, a maximum security prison ...

In Fall 2010, the Havighurst Center chose to explore the history of the Gulag as its semester-long focus. In addition to hosting speakers on the subject for the Havighurst Colloquia Series, the Center ...

(There are also those in Trump’s orbit who are joking, one hopes, about whom they might throw in the hypothetical gulag.) Whereas many of those branded most prominently with the scarlet R of ...

Norilsk, Russia, the world's most depressing city, faces extreme cold, isolation, heavy pollution, and a tragic Gulag history, making life harsh for its 175,000 residents.

Poles were among the first victims of the murderous system of the gulag. They were also among the first to report about it. Yet their testimonies hardly made the circles they deserved to. Here’s a ...

Norilsk is said to be so harsh and hostile that tourists are banned from visiting the place. Known as the northernmost city ...

The scale of the rendition program was first uncovered by U.K. journalist Stephen Grey in an investigation for the London-based New Statesman magazine titled "America's Gulag." ...

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 ...

She spent over a decade after the end of the Second World War behind the Iron Curtain and survived, among other things, 6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s.

Plans for a solar farm between two Derbyshire villages have been rejected to protect valuable farmland from being turned into ...