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(AP Photo) The 'highest level of isolation' Commonly known as "Polar Wolf", penal colony 3 (IK-3) was founded in the 1960s as part of what was once the Gulag system of forced Soviet labour camps. Located in the Yamal-Nenets region, about 1,900km north-east of Moscow and 60km north of the Arctic Circle, Kharp itself was built by Gulag prisoners.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, has become Russia’s most famous political prisoner. He is serving a nine-year term due to end in 2030 on charges widely seen as trumped up, and is facing another trial on new charges that could keep him locked up for another two decades.
Unlike in Germany, where the death and concentration camps of the Nazi regime have become monuments to the sins of fascism, the spirit of Stalinist oppression so vividly described by Alexander Solzhenitsyn has survived in modern Russia, with penal colonies constituting an integral part of the country’s correctional system.
FKU IK-3 (Russian: ФКУ ИК-3) [nb 1] of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, [3] also known as Polar Wolf (Russian: Полярный волк, romanized: Polyarnyy volk) or Yamskaya Troika (Ямская тройка), is a men's maximum security corrective colony in the town of Kharp in the ...
A toothbrush and a mug — these are the only personal items Vladimir Kara-Murza can keep behind bars at one of Russia's most brutal penal colonies. The 42-year-old Russian opposition activist is ...
For political prisoners like Kara-Murza, life in Russia’s penal colonies is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, sleep deprivation, insufficient food, health care that is poor or simply denied, and a dizzying set of arbitrary rules.
She headed to penal colonies in rural Russia to photograph its female inmates: women who exist on the fringes of society and were rejected, forgotten, and invisible.
Alexei Navalny's penal colony is the strictest penal colony you can get. Only those accused of the very worst crimes are sent to IK-3. Nicknamed Polar Wolf, it is located in Yamalo-Nenets...
An Intimate Look at Life in a Harsh Russian Gulag Max Avdeev IK-28, a maximum-security Russian penal colony, is located in Yertsevo, in the northern Arkhangelsk region near the Arctic...
In January 2024, CNN's Matthew Chance reported on what life is like inside one of Russia's notorious penal colonies, nicknamed the "Polar Wolf" for its remote location and proximity to the...