The European Commission's spokesperson, Peter Stano, commented on Friday in Brussels about the closure of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow, emphasising that this reflects Russia's selective ...

The state gave itself permission to double the length of prison sentences intending to fill the prisons they were building, ...

High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said.

Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison system. During an escape attempt in 1954 he spent five months hiding in a freezing mine with two ...