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Gulag prisoners built this town during WW2, it grew into a USSR mining centre of over 10,000 people; before the end of the Soviet era brought its decline in 1996Once a vibrant Soviet town dedicated to coal mining during World War II, Kadykchan was home to a lively community complete with schools and...- Russia's Nobel Prize-winning rights group Memorial branded 'extremist'Russia's Supreme Court has declared the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights group Memorial an extremist organization. This move intensif...
- Ticket to the Arctic: Inside Russia's system of convict labourRussia revives forced labour amid Ukraine war labour crisis. Convicts fill workforce gaps in harsh regions like Norilsk. Activist Yekaterin...
- 'Fixed it for you': White House 'corrects' NYT headline over wrongly deported man, netizens call it 'disgusting'The White House on Friday openly mocked US Senator Chris Van Hollen, for meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the El Salvadoran man mistakenly dep...
- Move over, Elon Musk: Donald Trump’s new bestie Nayib Bukele is a dictator you can follow on TikTokEl Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, self-styled “world’s coolest dictator,” has found a powerful new ally in Donald Trump. Their meeting ...
- Syria civil war: Bewildered, elated prisoners pour out as President Assad's jails flung openSyrian prisoners, held in notorious detention centers for years under Bashar al-Assad's rule, were liberated following the government's col...
- Harvey Weinstein hospitalised after 'alarming blood test', attorney saysHarvey Weinstein was hospitalized for urgent medical care after an alarming blood test. His attorney claims the New York jail's substandard...
- Blood stained clothes: Harvey Weinstein seeks $5 million damages from NYC for unhygienic prisonHarvey Weinstein has filed a legal claim against New York City, accusing Rikers Island jail of failing to provide necessary medical care an...
- Alexei Navalny was struck down with 'sudden death syndrome', his mother was told at Russian prisonAlexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from "sudden death syndrome," and his body would...
- UK government summons Russian embassy after Putin-critic Alexei Navalny's death, holds authorities responsibleThe UK government holds the Russian authorities responsible for Navalny's death. The FCDO condemns the brutal nature of the Russian system....
- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracked down in 'Polar Wolf' prisonNavalny's allies, who had been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison syst...
- Inside the penal colonies: A glimpse at life for political prisoners swept up in Russia's crackdowns"Guess who is the champion of listening to Putin's speeches? Who listens to them for hours and falls asleep to them?" Navalny said recently...
- The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizensRights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the populatio...
- China will interfere with Dalai Lama succession, prepared for democratic transition: Tibetan SikyongTsering, who also holds the title of Sikyong, stated that the Chinese government issued a "diktat" in 2007 on the need for it to be involve...
- New translation reveals Mukherjee Commission ignored Renkoji temple's nod for DNA test of ashes: Netaji kinHowever, for inexplicable reasons this portion of the letter was not translated and a bland edited English version was attached to the Just...
- ‘Call of Duty Warzone’ review: Unfolds a new chapter with top-notch graphics, responsive characters & good detailingWarzone is how a battle royale game should be.
- North Korea tells UN to drop call for ICC referralThe resolution was followed by the first-ever Security Council meeting on Pyongyang's rights record, which was held despite opposition from...
- North Korea angrily rejects UN human rights resolutionN Korea angrily rejected today a UN inquiry into its human rights record and vowed to step up its all-out struggle against the US.
- Sunday ET: Why Marxists retain some relevance in the subcontinent culturally, if not politicallyMarxists, Maoists, Leninists, Trotskyists all are welcome under the broad Incredible India umbrella.
- Does exile kill imagination and lead to devastation?Stefan Zweig, the Austrian-German author who was born into money and had a fetish for collecting originals of artists, once bought a manusc...
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