Boris Cornfeld was a Jewish physician from Russia. No one knows exactly how he ended up in a Gulag, the Soviet prison system ...
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova delivering a speech in court during the Pussy Riot trial (screen shot via YouTube) Yekaterina Samutsevich, the band member released from prison earlier this month, spoke to ...
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'Surrounded by Criminals': The photographer capturing the hidden language of Soviet prison tattoos
Black-and-white faces. Eyes that have witnessed decades of prison life and streets ruled by shadow codes. Bodies inked with stars, spiders, cats and cathedrals - symbols of rank, loyalty and defiance.
Vladimir Bukovsky left the Soviet Union in 1976 after twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric “hospitals.” He is the author of To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter.
WASHINGTON — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a ...
The North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck will feature "Letters from a Soviet Prison" on Thursday, July 31, from 6:30-8 p.m.
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