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Abandoned snow-covered buildings
Development
‘I am a hostage of the north’: Trapped in a post-Gulag Arctic city
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.
Books
From one generation to the next, Russians pass down the trauma of state terror
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."
Global Politics
Human rights group Memorial is too ‘inconvenient’ for Putin’s new Russia
Arts, Culture & Media
Author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Global Politics
Stalinism Survivor Runs Gulag Museum In Moscow
Arts, Culture & Media
In audio: the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Global Politics
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago,’ dies at 89
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s penal system after Solzhenitsyn