Russia moves to replace Gulag museum: How did the Stalin-era labour camps operate?

The word 'gulag' has become shorthand for state terror. Behind the acronym lies one of history's most methodical and devastating systems of human punishment, one that shaped modern Russia and left sca ...

World's biggest helicopter is so huge it once carried a gigantic 'frozen woolly mammoth'

The Mil Mi-26 (codename: Halo) is an impressive Russian-built helicopter and currently the largest in the world. The Mi-26 ...