The first Ukrainian person exiled to Siberia was Demian Ihnatovych (Mnohohrishnyi), a 17th century hetman, or military commander. Under Soviet rule, dozens of Gulag forced labour camps for political ...

A court in the Siberian city of Chita has sentenced journalist Nika Novak, a former RFE/RL contributor, to four years in prison. Sources close to the investigation told RFE/RL on November 26 that ...

When Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza was sent to prison for speaking out against the Kremlin, it was noteworthy that he continued to criticize Vladimir Putin from behind bars, even to the point ...

A court in Siberia on August 30 sentenced Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and founder of the LIStok newspaper in the city of Gorno-Altaisk, to eight years in prison on a charge of distributing false ...

The complex choreography caught some prisoners being freed in their robes and slippers, unaware of their fates, and required forensic experts to make positive identifications. By Anton Troianovski and ...