On 20 October 2020, the GULAGECHOES team hosted a seminar with Ksenia Runova and Leonid Zhizhin of the Institute for the Rule of Law (Saint Petersburg). They presented their recent work on prison geography and social contacts between prisoners and their families. Read more about their findings here (in Russian).
Gulag Echoes in the “multicultural prison”: historical and geographical influences on the identity and politics of ethnic minority prisoners in the communist successor states of Russia and Europe