Nadezhda Tolokonnikova delivering a speech in court during the Pussy Riot trial (screen shot via YouTube) Yekaterina Samutsevich, the band member released from prison earlier this month, spoke to ...
Black-and-white faces. Eyes that have witnessed decades of prison life and streets ruled by shadow codes. Bodies inked with stars, spiders, cats and cathedrals - symbols of rank, loyalty and defiance.
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Vladimir Bukovsky left the Soviet Union in 1976 after twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric “hospitals.” He is the author of To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter.
WASHINGTON — CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a ...