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Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall

Rescue teams and relatives of disappeared people in Syria are searching for their loved ones at the notorious Sednaya Prison in Damascus after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government. An intense search was under way at the jail on Monday for “hidden underground cells, reportedly holding detainees”, said the White Helmets rescue group, which dispatched emergency teams to the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Harvey Weinstein kept in ‘gulag’ conditions at Rikers, with ‘blood on prison garb’ – lawyers file claim against NYC

Live Mint

Harvey Weinstein’s legal team filed a legal claim on Tuesday against New York City, accusing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex of failing to provide proper medical care and subjecting the convicted film mogul to unsanitary conditions. The claim, which precedes a potential lawsuit, details multiple grievances, including neglect of Harvey Weinstein’s chronic medical conditions and claims of inadequate care, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Russian 'Queen of Crypto' thrown into gulag while pregnant after being accused of scamming £17million out of investors by saying she was funding Ukrainian Army

Daily Mail

A glamorous Russian influencer known as the 'Queen of Crypto' scammed investors out of £17million while claiming she was helping to fund the Ukrainian army. Russian authorities claim Valeria Fedyakina, 24, portrayed herself online as a cryptocurrency expert after allegedly building up her millions in just two months from a pyramid scheme targeting four different people. The pregnant content creator, …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Trump vs. Biden polls: Look, something doesn’t quite add up here.

Slate

Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really?, a recurring feature in which we take the temperature of how things are looking in the presidential election and what seems likely to happen in November. Trump, as he explains, is doing much better than he did four years ago among younger voters, including Black and Hispanic voters, particularly those who tell pollsters …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Navalny's prison pen pal reveals how he stayed sane in arctic 'Polar Wolf' jail

Daily Mail

Alexei Navalny kept his sanity in Russian jail by making jokes and 'mocking the border guards', according to a survivor of the same gulag. Four decades ago, Soviet dissident and Israeli former minister Natan Sharansky, 76, endured nine years in the same bone-chilling Arctic facility where Navalny died. Navalny, 47, said it was Sharansky's book which gave him 'hope' for …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Alexei Navalny's last walk and the haunting legacy of Russia's Arctic Circle Prison

Firstpost

The “Arctic Circle Prison”, or the “Polar Wolf” was officially named FKU IK-3 and is a men’s maximum security corrective colony located in the town of Kharp located in the Priuralsky district in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma,” said Winston Churchill famously. There has been global bedlam, since Alexei Navalny, …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Vladimir Putin has been told about Alexei Navalny’s death: Kremlin

Live Mint

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia's president has been told about Alexei Navalny's death. Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russia's prison agency said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Putin was informed of Navalny's death and the prison service was …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Alexei Navalny Latest news: Biden administration calls for investigation into Navalny's death

Hindustan Times

Feb 16, 2024 11:37 PM IST • Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: Peskov conveyed that President Vladimir Putin has been informed about Navalny's death. He later described the reaction of Western leaders to the death as “unacceptable” and "absolutely rabid", Peskov said later. • French President Emmanuel Macron: "In today's Russia, free spirits are put in the Gulag and sentenced to …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Navalny seen on video in first court appearance since transfer to brutal Arctic prison

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alexei Navalny, the outspoken critic …

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1 year ago

The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaces with darkly humorous comments

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony nicknamed the “Polar Wolf,” his first appearance since associates lost contact with him three weeks ago. He had been incarcerated in central Russia’s Vladimir region, about 230 kilometers east of Moscow, but supporters said he couldn’t be found beginning …

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1 year ago

Imprisoned Russian politician Navalny is now in a penal colony near the Arctic Circle

Associated Press

MOSCOW — Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said he was located in a prison colony in the town of Kharp, in the Yamalo-Nenets region about 1,900 kilometers northeast of …

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1 year ago

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader, is missing in the gulag

Live Mint

The last time the world heard from Alexei Navalny was on December 7th, when Russia’s most important opposition leader, who has been sentenced to 19 years in jail on various trumped-up charges, announced a campaign to discredit Vladimir Putin’s re-election as president. At the same time, Mr Navalny’s allies put up a website called “Russia Without Putin". The goal was …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Siberia USA conspiracy theory: How a bill about Alaskan mental health spawned a rumor about an American gulag.

Slate

When Alaskans wanted their own mental-health facility, a rumor took hold all over America. Naske, Claus-M. “Bob Bartlett and the Alaska Mental Health Act,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, January 1980. “Alaska Mental Health Bill Vote Slated Today,” Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1956. “Tear Gas Downs Mrs. Miller,” Burlington Free Press, May 4, 1955. “Tear Gas Shells End 12-Hour Siege of …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens

Associated Press

TALLINN, Estonia — When Yekaterina Maksimova can’t afford to be late, the journalist and activist avoids taking the Moscow subway, even though it’s probably the most efficient route. “The Kremlin has indeed become the beneficiary of digitalization and is using all opportunities for state propaganda, for surveilling people, for de-anonymizing internet users,” said Sarkis Darbinyan, head of legal practice at …

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1 year, 7 months ago

The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The Kremlin has indeed become the beneficiary of digitalization …

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1 year, 8 months ago

The News Minute Executive editor wants to repeat the Communist fantasy of gulag

Op India

On Sunday morning, the Executive Editor of the propaganda outlet, The News Minute, courted controversy after he endorsed the idea of sending half of the Indians to ‘re-education camps’ – a system reminiscent of the Soviet State between the 1920s and mid-1950s. While reacting to a tweet by PM Modi thanking Bengalureans for their overwhelming show of support, the Executive …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Paul Whelan breaks his silence from Russian penal colony after Brittney Griner's release

Daily Mail

Former US Marine Paul Whelan has spoken out from Russian prison after four years behind bars, slamming the Biden administration for failing to secure his release in the prisoner swap that freed WNBA star Brittney Griner. He is seen at a 2019 court hearing Griner was released Thursday in exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the 'Merchant …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Daily Quiz | On canals

The Hindu

Daily Quiz | On canals Copy link Email Facebook Twitter Telegram LinkedIn WhatsApp Reddit YOUR SCORE 0 /5 RETAKE THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | Identify this seaway between Canada and the U.S. that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America. YES NO Answer : St. Lawrence Seaway SHOW ANSWER 2 …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Belarus opposition says fate of country, Ukraine intertwined

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The fate of Belarus and Ukraine are “interconnected,” and both countries must fight together to safeguard their very existence because Russia doesn’t view them as independent sovereign states, Belarus’ opposition leader said Friday. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled to Lithuania after Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko claimed victory in disputed August 2020 elections that many thought she won, said …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Ex-US Marine launches hunger strike in Russian jail: Parents

Al Jazeera

Trevor Reed begins a hunger strike over being put in solitary confinement and not receiving proper medical care. Former US Marine Trevor Reed has begun a hunger strike in a Russian jail to protest at being put in solitary confinement and not receiving proper medical care despite fears he has tuberculosis, according to his parents. He was put in a …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Explained: The cocktail of ideologies behind Vladimir Putin

The Hindu

One year, five months and nearly three weeks: That's how long Peter the Great's travels through Western Europe lasted from 1697 to 1698. The czar drew geographic boundaries anew: The Urals would mark the borders between Europe and Asia and in that manner, the western part of Russia would permanently become a part of the "old continent." "One of Putin's …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Google Maps users find ‘most depressing place ever’ in Russia

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Soviet-era Gulag correctional labour …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Russia's feared prisons follow system from Soviet Gulag era

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But a hunger strike by jailed Russian opposition leader …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Borat 2 review: Sequel will be one of the most talked-about films of the year

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But these aren’t the main attraction of this sequel, which serves …

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Families search Syria’s Sednaya Prison for loved ones after al-Assad’s fall

Harvey Weinstein kept in ‘gulag’ conditions at Rikers, with ‘blood on prison garb’ – lawyers file claim against NYC

Russian 'Queen of Crypto' thrown into gulag while pregnant after being accused of scamming £17million out of investors by saying she was funding Ukrainian Army

Trump vs. Biden polls: Look, something doesn’t quite add up here.

Navalny's prison pen pal reveals how he stayed sane in arctic 'Polar Wolf' jail

Alexei Navalny's last walk and the haunting legacy of Russia's Arctic Circle Prison

Vladimir Putin has been told about Alexei Navalny’s death: Kremlin

Alexei Navalny Latest news: Biden administration calls for investigation into Navalny's death

Navalny seen on video in first court appearance since transfer to brutal Arctic prison

The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny resurfaces with darkly humorous comments

Imprisoned Russian politician Navalny is now in a penal colony near the Arctic Circle

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader, is missing in the gulag

Siberia USA conspiracy theory: How a bill about Alaskan mental health spawned a rumor about an American gulag.

The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens

The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizens

The News Minute Executive editor wants to repeat the Communist fantasy of gulag

Paul Whelan breaks his silence from Russian penal colony after Brittney Griner's release

Daily Quiz | On canals

Belarus opposition says fate of country, Ukraine intertwined

Ex-US Marine launches hunger strike in Russian jail: Parents

Explained: The cocktail of ideologies behind Vladimir Putin

Google Maps users find ‘most depressing place ever’ in Russia

Russia's feared prisons follow system from Soviet Gulag era

Borat 2 review: Sequel will be one of the most talked-about films of the year