A FORMER Brit soldier has been jailed for 13 years in one of Vladimir Putin’s hellhole gulags after being captured fighting ...

Poisoned twice and sentenced to the longest term ever handed down to a Russian government opponent, Kara-Murza details his ...

The 43-year-old, who served two-and-a-half years of his total sentence before being released in August, spoke of talking to walls and willing away the days “no longer understanding what’s real and ...

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 ...

DALLAS — Vladimir Kara-Murza has always been one to speak his mind. That's part of what got him a 25-year sentence in a Russian prison. And now, two months after his release from a Siberian gulag in a ...

The Gulag, established after the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1917, was the governmental body responsible for the extensive prison and labor camp network in the Soviet Union. It reached its ...

Sitting in the lobby of a central London hotel, Vladimir Kara-Murza is in a valiant mood. It’s been six months since he was released from the IK-6 colony in Omsk, Siberia, a maximum security prison ...

A top Kremlin propagandist has claimed that Soviet gulags were better than Nazi concentration camps on Russian state television. Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the ...

To understand the rot that underpins Russia under Vladimir Putin, consider the variable experience of Alexei Navalny’s family and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday. Nearly a week ...

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 ...

Getting the look right for Genek was also incredibly important considering that he goes through the most drastic physical transformation of the five Kurc siblings. “He’s the most established in his ...

A British-Russian dissident and opponent of Vladimir Putin, freed in the most high-profile prison swap since the end of the Cold War, has described the brutal treatment he suffered during 11 months of ...