The new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said that he would like to see a former Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands off the northern coast of Russia transformed into a spiritual center.

We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...

MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree on setting up a fund for preserving and developing the Solovetsky Islands archipelago. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and ...

Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it the "mother of the Gulag" — the spot near the Arctic Circle where the Soviet Union built one of its first camps for political prisoners. Subscribe to ...