The Russian prison caste system EXPLAINED. Lifestyle Dec 17 2021 Nikolay Shevchenko TASS There are castes that are really difficult to get into. There are also those, however, that ...

A top Russian prison official rejected allegations that the system still bears the indelible stamp of the notorious Soviet Gulag. Former prisoners and activists counter that the system remains ...

The Russian prison system is decrepit. It was last reformed in 1953, when Lavrenty Beria transferred control of the prisons from the NKVD [secret police] to the Justice Ministry.

Inside Russia's Prison System. By Armin Rosen. October 18, 2012. Share. ... Today's Russian prisons, home to over 830,000 prisoners and 560 out of every 100,000 Russians as of 2010, ...

Russia’s feared prisons follow system from Soviet Gulag era In this photo taken on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021 and provided by the Babuskinsky District Court, Russian ...

The guards would rotate through Russia’s prison system, serving a month at a time in prisons before other teams took their ...

Russian soldiers had captured Danylo, 28, and Illia, 20, and thrown them into a former pretrial detention center that the troops had turned into a prison for Ukrainian civilians.

Navalny aides have been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison system, after he was sentenced in August to an additional 19 years ...

An undated photo of Viktoriia Roschyna, a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist who had disappeared into the Russian prison system after being detained while reporting in Ukraine’s occupied ...

In addition, the hackers used their access to the Russian prison system’s online commissary, where family members buy food for inmates, to change the prices of things like noodles and canned ...

MOSCOW — Some Russian prisons might be mistaken for vacation destinations based on their nicknames, with animal appellations that include the Black Dolphin and the Polar Owl. But a hunger strike ...