For nearly half a century, October 30 has marked the annual remembrance day for victims of political repression in Russia. In the run-up to this year’s commemorations, however, librarians and ...

RUDNIK MATROSOVA, Russia — Throughout a factory filled with the din of machines grinding rocks, female guards tote rifles and shotguns, like a small militia of Annie Oakleys. Surveying the vast room, ...

Ever been to the Gulag? Chances are you’ve seen Auschwitz-Birkenau. Perhaps you’ve also toured one or more of the museums at Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen ...

The 216 people on board the Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco that made an emergency landing on Tuesday are stranded in Russia's remote town of Magadan, a key transit point of the infamous ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

MAGADAN, Russia — Father Michael Shields was sent to the Siberian city of Magadan seven years ago, with a mandate to reevangelize those with Catholic roots. The Brother of the Heart of Jesus priest ...

Over the past decade notions of social capital have become embedded in the social development lexicon, often presented as the 'missing link' within development theory. Much social capital-based ...

There's a town in Russia on the far eastern reaches of the country closer to Alaska than any major Russian city. It's terribly cold, and snow falls late into spring. That place is Magadan, and it's ...

MAGADAN (Russia) Yelena Zyuzka still doesn't understand why she was exiled to Magadan, but 62 years later she would happily share the enormous cake baked to celebrate the city's birthday. The ...

A prominent monument commemorating victims of the Soviet gulag system has been vandalized in Russia's Far East. Unknown individuals have written with red paint "Stalin is alive" and drew a red star -- ...