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.

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

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 ...

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 ...