Most people I’ve met who are at least aware of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago know that they ...

Murza, one of the faces of Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin alongside Evan Gershkovich, sits down with The Independent ...

Vladimir Kara-Murza survived almost a year in Russia's worst gulag - now he's been released he has told what he struggled ...

I firmly and fundamentally believe that if we ever want to see Europe, that is whole free and at peace with itself, that is ...

As someone who spent nine years in a Soviet gulag for political reasons, Natan Sharansky knows the loneliness Jews are ...

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“No one can survive 25 years in a Russian gulag, especially after the two poisonings I’ve been through,” he said. “It was a death sentence.” Talking about the prisoner swap – which ...

Getty Images Having spent nine years in the gulag, I know something about loneliness. Back then, locked up in a Soviet prison, I was for years denied the company of other human beings. It was ...

When Russians started being arrested for opposing the Ukraine offensive, Maria felt the same kind of fear she guessed her ancestors, victims of repression under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, must ...

But it was the government of Vladimir Lenin that developed the Soviet gulag system and implemented it on a massive scale. After the 1917 October Revolution, Communist leaders found that there were ...

He was posthumously rehabilitated after Stalin’s death in 1953. His wife was also targeted, spending four years in the gulag, the Soviet network of harsh prison labor camps. Maria’s grandmother, who ...

He was posthumously rehabilitated after Stalin's death in 1953. His wife was also targeted, spending four years in the gulag, the Soviet network of harsh prison labor camps. Maria's grandmother ...