“No one in the Russian penitentiary system is safe,” says Grigory Vaypan, a lawyer with Memorial, a group founded to document repression in the Soviet Union, especially from the Stalinist prison system known as the gulag. “For political prisoners, the situation is often ...
In this captivating tale of Japanese tradition, we follow Chiyo through her first-person account of becoming a geisha (which turns out to be a lot less desirable than you imagined). Also ranks #4 on Books You Will Not Believe Are Banned in Texas Prisons Also ranks #8 on Must-Read Book...
In this captivating tale of Japanese tradition, we follow Chiyo through her first-person account of becoming a geisha (which turns out to be a lot less desirable than you imagined). Also ranks #4 on Books You Will Not Believe Are Banned in Texas Prisons Also ranks #8 on Must-Read Book...
One prison in particular — roughly 300 miles southeast of Moscow, in the remote Russian republic of Mordovia — is a woman’s penal colony described as one of the most feared brutal prisons in Russia:IK-2. Inside the hard-labor facility of roughly 800 women is American basketball star B...
EPISODE 264: GOING DONG-OUT AND ALL THE WAY IN0 Jul 5, 2019 Here is the long-awaited last episode of 2018! Sorry for the delay, but it's probably well worth it! This week we're eating bad jelly beans, using math poorly while playing Russian roulette, reminiscing on hot but traumatic...
Instead, Mathilde married Count Anatole Demidoff, a Russian aristocrat who turned out to be, putting it mildly, a cad. It was a stormy existence. The marriage reached its dramatic conclusion when Demidoff slapped her in public. He forgot that his wife had high connections across Europe and...
His 10 years in detention in Russias notorious penal network, in prisons from Siberia to Karelia, became a symbol of the erosion of human rights in Russian under Putin and battered Russias image abroad. With no possibility of returning to Russia soon due to a $550 million lawsuit, Khodor...
Doing the math in his head and quietly marking milestones left in his sentence helped the Russian opposition politician survive more than three years in prison, much of it spent in complete isolation. “You have no one to talk to, so you come up with ca...
1. After a slightkerfuffle, yoga is a yo-go in Russian prisons – as is being gay.Claimsthat yoga is anti-Christian and causes homosexuality were submitted to conservative senator Elena Muzulina, who allegedly asked for two pilot yoga programs in prisons to be suspended, which she laterdenied...
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