For nearly half a century, October 30 has marked the annual remembrance day for victims of political repression in Russia. In the run-up to this year’s commemorations, however, librarians and ...

MAGADAN, Russia — Father Michael Shields was sent to the Siberian city of Magadan seven years ago, with a mandate to reevangelize those with Catholic roots. The Brother of the Heart of Jesus priest ...

Kseniya Melnik's debut collection of short stories portrays life in Magadan, Russia, a town notorious for it's Gulag labor camps. NPR's Rachel... 'Snow In May': The Lives Of Magadan, Gateway To The ...

Tamara Filatova was 19 years old in 1948 when she was sentenced to 20 years in the gulag for the "crime" of being an ethnic German. Part of her sentence was served at the Dneprovsky labor camp in the ...

MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Russians who leave the country and support Ukraine should be sent to a far eastern region known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps if they ever return home, according to ...