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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,' ...

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 ...

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 ...