According to the Russian Prison Service, Alexei Navalny was taking a walk when he felt unwell, quickly lost consciousness and prison medical staff were unable to revive him. NBC News’ Richard Engel ...

The 43-year-old, who served two-and-a-half years of his total sentence before being released in August, spoke of talking to walls and willing away the days “no longer understanding what’s real and ...

The Gulag, established after the Bolsheviks took control of Russia in 1917, was the governmental body responsible for the extensive prison and labor camp network in the Soviet Union. It reached its ...

DALLAS — Vladimir Kara-Murza has always been one to speak his mind. That's part of what got him a 25-year sentence in a Russian prison. And now, two months after his release from a Siberian gulag in a ...

The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the vast Soviet network of prisons and labor camps that came into being ...

A top Kremlin propagandist has claimed that Soviet gulags were better than Nazi concentration camps on Russian state television. Julia Davis, a columnist for The Daily Beast and the creator of the ...

A British-Russian dissident and opponent of Vladimir Putin, freed in the most high-profile prison swap since the end of the Cold War, has described the brutal treatment he suffered during 11 months of ...