VORKUTA, Russia — The gulag is gone, but its prisoners remain. Poverty and a lifetime of missed chances have marooned Said Asan Dzhamilov in luckless Vorkuta. More than six decades ago, he was among a ...
Vorkuta is a brutal place. This Russian city of 70,000 just north of the Arctic Circle is almost completely dependent on coal mining. It was founded in 1932 as one of the most notorious camps of the ...
On the 50th anniversary of the June 17, 1953 East German revolt News and Letters editor's note: June 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the first mass revolt against Stalinist totalitarianism --the ...
Two Americans stepped through the Iron Curtain last week, free men. Private William Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa., who disappeared from his Army unit in Berlin in 1949, asked for a cigarette and ...
MOSCOW, May 7. /TASS/. In October 1941, the Nazi occupied Donbass, seizing 60% of Russia’s coal. Komi became the most important coal supplier. In the complicated conditions of permafrost people in ...
Anna Krikun spent a decade in a Soviet labor camp in Vorkuta, the city in the Russian Arctic where 36 workers died in coal-mine disaster last month. Krikun survived dictator Josef Stalin’s Great ...
WASHINGTON -- Despite misgivings in Moscow, Pentagon investigators are intensifying their search for Cold War-era Russian records that could confirm reports that American servicemen from World War II ...
March 19 (Reuters) - A methane explosion killed 25 people on Monday as it ripped through a Russian coal mine where 186 miners were working, the Emergencies Ministry said. The Ulyanovskaya mine, in the ...
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