PERM, Russia -- The Perm-36 gulag museum in the forests of Western Siberia is under new management -- and it's easy to feel the difference when touring the new team's recently opened first exhibition.

PERM, Russia -- There's one place in the world where can you see the original, preserved barracks of Josef Stalin's gulag. It's the Perm-36 camp in the Urals. The camp was abandoned in 1988 and ...

Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the ...

Susanne Sternthal is a visiting fellow at King’s College London’s Russia Institute. One more light has gone out in Russia’s besieged civil society. The only museum of political repression set in an ...

The word gulag sends shivers down the spine of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived under Stalinist terror. Soviet history is ragged with deportations, forced ...

The era feels impossible now, in a Russia that's increasingly closed, controlled and paranoid: Crowds dancing as buskers played world beats in a muddy field outside the governor's office. A government ...