Story of Frants Brzhezytsky, last Ukrainian survivor of Majdanek concentration camp
Franz Carlowitz Březicki (Ukr: Frants Karlovych Brzhezytsky) was born in a modest Polish working family in Zhytomyr on…
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Russian Guard’s aspirations open the way to mass repressions, Stanovaya says
Russia is on the way to acquiring a government institution fully capable of mass repressions, Tatyana Stanovaya says.…
Russia’s penal reforms point to return of ‘renewed’ GULAG, Novaya Gazeta says
Moscow has taken great pride in the fact that the number of Russians incarcerated in its penal system…
“Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Ukrainians discover stories of repressed relatives in newly opened KGB archives
Russia and Ukraine hold the world’s largest documentary collections of Communist secret services that ceased to exist in…
‘Putin’s GULAG more horrible than Stalin’s,’ researchers say
Many people of good will around the world have been horrified by the case of Rizvan Ibragimov who…
The story of Anna Popovych: love, war, death, gulag and freedom
Anna Popovych was born in the village of Zelena, Nadvinyansky Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on May 29, 1925. During…
Russian blogger Yakovlev: My grandfather was a “chekist” and a murderer
Have you ever seen a real chekist ID? This belonged to my grandfather and I still have it.…
Ukrainian dissident Krasivsky: Russia is our historical enemy. Only by fighting back can we survive
Friend and dissident Yevhen Sverstyuk called him a “kind-hearted knight in an old suit of armour”. His friends…
How UPA veteran Anna survived the “Russian world”
After WW2, Anna Kushyk moved to the Donbas to escape the vigilant eye of the Soviet secret police.…
The price for a clear conscience in Russia
Not being able to go home to your own country, to see your parents, to bury your loved…
Why do many Westerners show sympathy to Russia and Communism – but not to their victims?
Those who study the post-Soviet world and especially its non-Russian parts are often struck by the fact that…
Victor Serge again triumphs over Arthur Koestler
Two images of Stalin’s Great Terror have long competed in the West and even in some former communist…
Putin’s Russia well on its way to ‘criminal neo-totalitarianism’ with a ‘neo-terror’ and a ‘neo-GULAG,’ Pastukhov says
Vladimir Pastukhov says that Putin’s Russia is well on its way to “criminal neo-totalitarianism” with all the attributes…
After Putin, Russians will say they were deceived just as Germans did after Hitler
Not all, but “the overwhelming majority of Germans sincerely believed” what Hitler said, just as not all but…
Moscow closed GULAG museum because it doesn’t want a ‘territory of freedom’
Sergey Kovalev, a human rights activist who was once an inmate in the Perm camp memorialized by the…
Moscow analyst: Putin’s ‘greatest task’ is to become a new Stalin and divide world with West
On the 62nd anniversary of his death today, Stalin continues to cast an ever darker shadow over Russia,…
Three disturbing developments in Russia
At a time when each day brings fresh evidence that Russia is headed in a very dangerous direction…
Russian Interior Ministry wants to restore Stalin-style ‘Troikas’ to speed up ‘justice’
The Russian interior ministry wants to revive the troikas Stalin used to conduct the purges in the 1930s…
60 years ago this week, Ukrainians rose up against the Soviet GULAG at Kengir
Sixty years ago this week, non-Russian prisoners rose up in Kengir against their Soviet GULAG jailors. They were…