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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners from forced labor camps built railroad tracks in one of the most inhospitable regions of ...

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 ...

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 ...