MARKHAYANOVA, Russia (Reuters) - The Kolyma used to be a river of death for prisoners in some of the harshest camps of Josef Stalin's Gulag empire. Now the camps are long gone, but so too is the ...

Nicolas Werth’s excellent history of the Nazino gulag is a portrait of a place that went from terrible to unimaginable. By 1933, before Nazino’s gulag opened, Soviet authorities had already spent four ...

VANKOR FIELD, Russia (Reuters) - Half a century ago, Josef Stalin banished his foes to labor camps in East Siberia. Now volunteers are lining up to drill the frozen wastelands for their vast reserves ...

As Don mentioned, Amnesty International issued a report that was denounced by the Bush administration. It called the US-run prison camps at Guantanamo Bay `a Gulag for our time.' That word, `Gulag,' ...

&‘&‘The Way Back" is a return to the historical epics of David Lean, a story of survival under unthinkable physical and spiritual hardship. The film dramatizes the real-life saga of three prisoners ...

Today the word “gulag” is often used figuratively, but in the Soviet Union the Gulag—an acronym designating the system of forced labor camps—was all too real. Millions of people lived and died in the ...

We Americans use Siberia as an adjective even more than we use it as a proper noun. “Siberian cold...”, “Siberian desolation...”, as though this remote region of Russia was shorthand for the most ...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Flowers were laid on rusty railway tracks Monday as Lithuania marked the start of a mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Flowers were laid on rusty railway tracks Monday as Lithuania marked the start of a mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation.