Post contributing columnist Vladimir Kara-Murza was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years by Vladimir Putin’s regime. The verdict was ostensibly for his criticism of the war in Ukraine. But ...

The rights group that ran Russia’s only museum in a former gulag said Tuesday it has been ousted and the institution will cease as a memorial devoted to Soviet-era repression. The Perm-36 museum — ...

Russia on Friday opened a major new museum on the horrors of the Soviet gulag labour camp system but President Vladimir Putin blanked the day commemorating victims of ...

Images of champagne, helicopters and designer outfits shared online have collided with a country shaped by years of war and economic strain. According to Le Figaro, cited by News.ro, Russian clothing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vladimir Kara-Murza sits down with The Independent in London to recall his Siberian prison ordeal (Liam James/The Independent) The ...

Russian prosecutors demanded Tuesday that a respected Gulag historian be sentenced to 15 years in prison over alleged sexual assault in a case his allies say has been trumped up to silence him. Yury ...

A visitor to the Gulag History Museum looks at an exhibit near a photo of a Gulag prisoner in Moscow, Russia, on May 21, 2018. (Celestino Arce / NurPhoto via AFP) MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia plans to ...

YouTube videos that won’t load. A visit to a popular independent media website that produces only a blank page. Mobile phone internet connections that are down for hours or days. Going online in ...

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression. The closure was officially put down to alleged ...

Gulag Historian Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Testing in Russia MOSCOW — A Russian historian of the Gulag is scheduled to undergo enforced psychiatric testing this week, apparently having ruffled ...

MOSCOW -- The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, a generation after the Kremlin banned it as destructive to the Communist ...