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Recent Examples of gulag
In Moscow on Monday night, a steady trickle of mourners continued to pay respects to Navalny by laying flowers at the Solovetsky stone, a memorial for victims of the Soviet gulags, under the watchful eye of a dozen or so police officers.
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Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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Robyn Dixon, Emily Rauhala, arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2024
They have been accused of extrajudicial killings and rape, and torturing people held in the country’s network of gulags.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Under a new decree, relatives of people who had defected during the last three years were to be imprisoned in Soviet-style gulags or banished without supplies to a wilderness in the country’s far north.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
Several of the women and their family members – their loyalty now suspect – were sentenced to long prison terms in the gulags.
—Terry W. Hartle, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gulag
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She could be sentenced to up to five years in prison if convicted.Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Most were ordered to pay a fine and received probation or a few months in prison.Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2024
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Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Hollinger’s affairs proved to be a total mess: Black was later convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent more than three years in a federal penitentiary.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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But Penny may never even spend a minute in jail for taking another man’s life.Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
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Police departments in those jurisdictions generally do not help ICE carry out street-level arrests, and jails will not hold immigration violators charged with traffic offenses, or in some cases violent felonies.Nick Miroff The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
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Request Reprint Permissions There are worse places to begin a search for the sources of Egypt's current political earthquake than in the company of a middle-aged French soldier imprisoned in a German stalag during World War II.Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2011
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Working without a blueprint, the famous socialites milked their fish-out-of-water dynamic across the country over the course of five seasons, going from a jailhouse to a sausage-packing plant to a theater camp.Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
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Hannah’s sugared voice through the jailhouse phone.John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
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Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
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Watch: The truth about Stalin’s prison camps The most influential of Stalin memorials is being raised in the minds of the young.Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
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An investigation conducted by a United Nations tribunal into the crimes committed at the prison camp led to the conviction of two top commanders at the camp and a guard for numerous crimes, including murder and torture.Greg Wehner, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement The agency’s desire to expand its immigration lockups predates Trump’s election.Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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Adams has voiced concerns about that plan, saying the current population on Rikers is too large to be accommodated in the new jails and that there should be a large emphasis on mental health resources at the new lockups under construction.Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 27 Nov. 2024
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