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Polly Jones

The Moscow Times

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The Ghosts of Gulag Survivors Live On in Evan Gershkovich’s Prison Memoir

The Ghosts of Gulag Survivors Live On in Evan Gershkovich’s Prison Memoir

On Aug. 1, 2024, the world awoke to joyous news of a prisoner swap, freeing 16 prisoners from Russia and Belarus and 10 Russians from prisons in the...

27.10.2026 10

The Moscow Times

Polly Jones

70 Years After the Secret Speech, Russia Is Still Reckoning With Stalin

Seventy years ago today, on Feb. 25 1956, then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took to the podium in Moscow’s Palace of Congresses and spoke for...

25.02.2026 80

The Moscow Times

Polly Jones

Erasing Magadan's Gulag Past Enables Today's Violence

10.12.2025 40

The Moscow Times

Polly Jones