In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten. A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment ...

Vasily Kovalyov had survived icy punishment cells and beatings in the USSR's notorious Gulag prison system. During an escape attempt in 1954 he spent five months hiding in a freezing mine with two ...

This image from Senate Television video, contained in the Justice Department’s affidavit in support of a criminal complaint ...

I n a startling case showcasing Vladimir Putin’s intensifying crackdown, 24-year-old Viktoria Mukhametova has been sentenced ...

6 years in the Gulag before she managed to return to Austria in the mid-1950s. Sie hatte ihrer Mutter versprochen, die alle Erzählungen der Großmutter detailliert festgehalten hatte, dass sie ...

RAGING tyrant Vladimir Putin has sent a woman, 24, to gulag after she was accused of selling secrets to Ukraine. Viktoria Mukhametova has been sent to a penal colony for 12-and-a-half years after ...

The decision by ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan to apply for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the most controversial in the court's history. In an ...

Ursula von der Leyen is a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel "For me, it's like coming home," said Ursula von der Leyen of her new job as president of the European Commission.

Ursula von der Leyen has offered her strongest endorsement yet to the controversial project of establishing so-called "return hubs" outside the European Union territory to transfer asylum seekers ...

BRUSSELS — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set new hiring rules for incoming commissioners as they form their top teams. The rules aim to ensure diversity in nationality, gender and ...

BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen will propose tougher laws and more plans to deport rejected asylum seekers, doubling down on the European Union’s new embrace of harsher migration policies as ...

Mr. Van Der Beek, who played Dawson Leery in the ’90s drama, told People Magazine that he was being treated for colorectal cancer. By Yan Zhuang James Van Der Beek, who starred in the 1990s teen ...