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 ...

Perm-36 was grouped with two other camps, Perm-35 and Perm-37, to form the "Perm Triangle" where Natan Sharansky, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vasyl Stus, Yuri Orlov and other famed Soviet dissidents were sent.

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 ...

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.

PERM, Russia -- There's one place in the world where can you see the original, preserved barracks of Josef Stalin's gulag. It's the Perm-36 camp in the Urals. The camp was abandoned in 1988 and ...

Perm, too, had a market where everything was sold at exorbitant prices, Natalya recalls. But what you could always buy in a store was bread and milk. “It was a real joy when they distributed ...

The city of a million people, near the Ural Mountains, previously known for its Soviet-era labor camps and weapons factories, is experiencing an astonishing transformation. Zum Inhalt springen DER ...

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 ...

Gulag - Russian: “Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps,” the system of Soviet labor camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons that from the 1920s to the mid-1950s housed ...

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 ...