Maria Alyokhina reveals the conditions she endured in one of the remote penal colonies where opponents of Vladimir Putin face potential torture ...

Built by Gulag prisoners above the Arctic Circle, Vorkuta is a city that was never meant to last. Temperatures drop below –50°C, and entire neighborhoods are now empty but still heated at enormous ...

Mussolini’s forces started moving into Albania in 1929 and eventually overtook Albania officially in 1939, killing seven members of my family – two men by firing squad and five women by sentencing ...