These biting insects have played their role in Siberia’s history, deterring escapees from the gulags ... or taking women hostage if their men couldn’t or wouldn’t pay. Russian merchants ...

Concurrently, the Russian industry is grappling with ... (population of approximately 500,000 in Siberia), suggested forming a women's battalion to mitigate the city's municipal worker shortages.

Their visit notably coincided with the anniversary of Operation Priboi - the forcible deportation of over 90,000 Baltic peoples to gulags that ... sadly, were women and children under 16.

Though Mary is reluctant to accept this new visitor at first, the two women soon develop an intense ... officer sentenced to 20 years in a Siberian Gulag labor camp. Ronan is also a standout ...

and the Russian version can be found here. Welcome to this exhibition, which will take you to another time and to another place. To a time of war in Europe when many had to flee to save their own ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

Russian American ballerina Ksenia Karelina arrived back in the United States late Thursday following her release from a Russian jail as part of a prisoner swap with Moscow. The 33-year-old’s ...

MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) - A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia due to a technical malfunction, local governor Igor Kobzev said on Wednesday.

Russia is believed to have 20,000 abandoned ... To that effect, he set up gulags in the region, using political prisoners as slave labour to extract the minerals. Almost a million prisoners ...

The Russian President has repeatedly called on women to have more babies, in a desperate bid to reverse the trend. He has also previously warned that Russia's ethnic survival depended on families ...

Russian troops launched an attack on Kupiansk using multiple rocket launchers (MLRS). As a result of the strike, two women were killed. This was reported on Telegram by Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the ...

A Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region of southeastern Siberia due to a technical malfunction, local governor Igor Kobzev said on Wednesday. The plane went down during a ...