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 ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill arrived in Magadan as a part of his pastoral visit of the Russian Far East. The patriarch led a sanctification ceremony at a newly built church on shore of the Sea of ...

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 ...

GULAG MAGADAN follows Marxist USSR dissidents Elizabeta, Pyotr, and Larisa, as they talk with one other in the Gulag, and begin to examine both one other and themselves. Dissident Larisa a former art ...

A prominent monument commemorating victims of the Soviet gulag system has been vandalized in Russia's Far East. Unknown individuals have written with red paint "Stalin is alive" and drew a red star -- ...

Taken in 1991, during the glasnost era, these extraordinary photographs are a powerful reminder of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history “We Russians have always had a sadomasochistic ...