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About Ekaterina Loushnikova

Ekaterina Loushnikova is radio and print journalist based in the city of Kirov

Articles by Ekaterina Loushnikova

Thursday 28th April

The last prisoner

Ekaterina Loushnikova, 28 April 2011
Pavel Galitsky spent fifteen years in the brutal labour camps of Kolyma, Siberia. Against the odds, the 100-year old dissident is still alive and Skype'ing, having outlived both his contemporaries and tormentors. He recounts the full horror of his experience to oDR writer Ekaterina Loushnikova.

Outcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle

Ekaterina Loushnikova, 27 October 2010
In Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK 56 survives in their place. Ekaterina Lushnikova travelled there to speak to the inmates — some of Russia’s most hardened criminals.

Thursday 11th June

The Vyatlag Archipelago

Ekaterina Loushnikova, 11 June 2009
Penal colonies still hold thousands of prisoners in the Kirov Oblast
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