Gulag

Actor David Harbour has revealed that he lost a whopping 80 pounds for Stranger Things Season 4, and this type of dramatic weight loss is not something he is eager to repeat anytime soon. In Season 4, Harbour's character, Hopper, is in prison at a Soviet gulag. He is not…

Convicted sexual predator and former R&B superstar R. Kelly was placed on suicide watch at the Brooklyn jail where he is being held after he was sentenced to 30 years in prison earlier this week, his attorney said.  Lawyer Jennifer Bonjean claimed Kelly was placed on the watch as punishment…

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Get ready for Putin's Great Purge of 2022. It won't be as fierce as Stalin's in 1937 when 680,000 were executed, 116,000 sent to the gulag, and thousands committed suicide. Read Full Article » Read More

A top commander of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) intelligence agency has been placed under house arrest amid upheaval and infighting among officials as President Vladimir Putin fumes over the botched Ukraine invasion, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Russian commander Col. Gen. Sergei Beseda was in charge of the…

In the darkest days of the Soviet Union men were hauled away to the “Gulag,” or sometimes simply shot, for the vague crime of “wrecking.” When trains derailed or were caught up in a railyard snafu – or a crop yield didn’t meet arbitrary Kremlin quotas – someone had to…

/ Europe Issued on: 03/12/2021 - 18:02 Pope Francis delivers a speech during an ecumenical prayer with migrants at the Parish Church of the Holy Cross in Nicosia, Cyprus on December 3, 2021. © Alessandra Tarantino, AP Pope Francis, at an emotional meeting with migrants, said on Friday he had…

In the spring of 1936, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, an African American man from Dallas, Texas, vanished in Moscow. He had lived in the Soviet Union for nearly a decade, most recently with his wife, Marina, a Russian Jewish chemist, in a cramped apartment around the corner from the Central Telegraph building.…

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the United States Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, demanding the release of people incarcerated in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack that has led to hundreds of criminal cases and precious little reflection on the far right. The event failed…

She was one of Russia's most famous dancers who performed in front of thousands. After finishing training in 1926 aged 17, Nina Anisimova went on to wow audiences across what was then the Soviet Union as part of the Kirov ballet for more than 30 years. But new book Dancing…