The most popular foreign playwright in Russia is London-born Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. He is known in the US as the ...

Perm-36, also known as ITK-6, is the only intact facility remaining in Russia from the Soviet-era gulag system of political prisons and labor camps. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Perm-36 was ...

Mr. Kurginyan is proud of the role Essence of Time played in the state's takeover of Perm-36, a move he says was essential to ending the "anti-Soviet propaganda" that was weakening Russia's sense ...

Susanne Sternthal is a visiting fellow at King’s College London’s Russia Institute ... prisons for Soviet dissidents, operating until 1988, well into the Gorbachev years. Perm-36 was grouped ...

PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests of Western Siberia is under new management -- and it's easy to feel the difference when touring the new team's recently opened first exhibition.

Visitors to the Perm-36 museum in the Urals can stroll through a well-preserved prison camp of the Gulag system established by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. But despite the authenticity of the site ...

Perm is also situated on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. In the afternoon, Perm-bound trains leave Moscow’s Yaroslavsky Station almost hourly ($50-120 one-way, 20-26 hours).

In 1978, Bohdan Klymchak walked out of the Soviet Union and asked for political asylum in Iran. Klymchak was Ukrainian, born near Lviv. In 1949, his family had been deported to Khabarovsk, in the ...

The program progressed slowly following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. While the lead vessel, Severodvinsk, was laid down in 1993 due to funding issues caused by Russia‘s financial crisis ...

That, in fact, may be one major reason many decent Russians feel that Putin’s Russia — their Russia — is worse than the Soviet state whose demise he laments.