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The Gulag has become a major influence on contemporary Russian thinking, and an important part of modern Russian folklore. Many songs by the authors-performers known as the bards , most notably Vladimir Vysotsky and Alexander Galich , neither of whom ever served time in the camps, describe life inside the Gulag and glorified the life of " zeks ".
Yarovskaya is the daughter of Russian actor and director Marianna Yablonskaya and a rocket scientist, Arkady Yarovsky. [ 8 ] She first studied journalism at Moscow State University , before moving to California and studying film at the USC School of Cinematic Arts .
From 2005 onwards there was an annual international forum at Perm-36, called "Pilorama" ("The Sawmill" (more precisely "Power-saw bench") ru:Пилорама (форум), with meetings It brought together famous people, film screenings, exhibitions and concerts and attracted thousands of people, including former prisoners and human rights activists, including the Human Rights Commissioner in ...
A list of Gulag penal labor camps in the USSR was created in Poland from the personal accounts of labor camp detainees of Polish citizenship. It was compiled by the government of Poland for the purpose of regulation and future financial compensation for World War II victims, and published in a decree of the Council of Ministers of Poland .
The First Circle (Russian: В круге первом, V kruge pervom) is a 2006 Russian miniseries directed by Gleb Panfilov, with ten 44-minute episodes.It is based on The First Circle, the novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [2] based on his experiences in Joseph Stalin's Gulag.
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 ...
Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в; born 7 March 1964) is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of eighty-three girls and women between 1992 and 2010 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least eighty-six in total.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian security forces stormed a prison on Friday to free hostages seized by knife-wielding prisoners who identified themselves as Islamic State militants, according to news ...