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Abandoned snow-covered buildings

‘I am a hostage of the north’: Trapped in a post-Gulag Arctic city

Development

Many Russians in the far north have been waiting for more than two decades to be resettled in lower latitudes. They are caught between Moscow’s grand plans for Arctic development and an exodus of aging Soviet workers longing to see flowers rather than blizzards in the springtime.

Russia-born U.S. journalist Masha Gessen (center) in a 2013 protest in Moscow against a proposed new law that would ban gay rights rallies.

From one generation to the next, Russians pass down the trauma of state terror

Books
Faced with western sanctions, the Kremlin has pushed for a renewed sense of patriotism among younger Russians. At the National Unity Day celebrations in Moscow, students sport buttons that read, "An attack on Russia is an attack on me."

Human rights group Memorial is too ‘inconvenient’ for Putin’s new Russia

Global Politics

Author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media

Stalinism Survivor Runs Gulag Museum In Moscow

Global Politics
The World

In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Arts, Culture & Media

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn timeline: Birth: 1918, December 12; Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is born in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918, as World War I was ending. His father dies six months before his birth. A student of mathematics: 1937; Now an unpublished and frustrated young author, Solzhenitsyn reluctantly studies Mathematics at Rostov University in Russia. Natalia […]

The World

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89

Global Politics

Guest: Archie Barron, producer and director of the documentary The Solzhenitsyns Take a Long Way Home’

The World

Russia’s penal system after Solzhenitsyn

Conflict & Justice

The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at the state of Russia’s justice and prison system, in the wake of the death of dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.