The analysis of 63 human bone fragments uncovered in Poland's Maszycka Cave just revealed a grisly truth about the ...

The Soviet Gulag prison system was set up in the 1920's by the ruling communist party. Soviet Gulags were forced labour camps. They held prisoners in harsh living conditions, where any treatment ...

Zimbabwe faces economic collapse, political repression, and daily hardship. With hyperinflation and mass unemployment.

In Karaganda, the painful memories of the infamous Soviet gulag here are part and parcel of the identity of the Jews who live in the city. KARAGANDA, Kazakhstan (JTA) — Liza Luchanskiy was born ...

These days in Washington, D.C., among a class of Extremely Beltway types—the name-droppers, the strivers, the media ...

The Museum of Moscow removed a planned section on Soviet repressions from its “History of Moscow ... The curators had reportedly enlisted staff from the Gulag History Museum to draft labels for the ...

I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn received the 1970 ...

In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by ...

The Trump administration has warmly greeted an offer from El Salvador to detain both deported undocumented migrants and criminal U.S. citizens in a sprawling high-security prison that human rights ...