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 ...

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 ...

Their exile to the gulag foreshadowed the deportations of more than a million people taken by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago. Amid Russia’s war of torture, rape, and pillage, ...

Authorities in Russia's Far Eastern town of Debin have shut down a museum devoted to prominent writer Varlam Shalamov, who was widely known for his short stories about his years in a gulag in the ...

Moldova has rejected Russian claims that an exhibition of train wagons, recalling successive waves of brutal Soviet deportations, is designed 'to incite hatred of Russia'. Moldova’s Foreign Ministry ...

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 ...

According to the Russian Prison Service, Alexei Navalny was taking a walk when he felt unwell, quickly lost consciousness and prison medical staff were unable to revive him. NBC News’ Richard Engel ...