Cityscapes of Nizhnevartovsk by Roman Gostev.

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Tamara Tsebrovskaya assembles door handles at the Mytishchi Plant of Construction Plastics. Photo by Aleksey Gostev (1962).

Lisa Gostev, Bayou Kids, 2022, Oil on linen

Shenlik - a song and dance ensemble from Lankaran, Azerbaijan. Photo by A. Gostev (1982).

In 2022, for the first time in modern Russia’s history, not a single person successfully escaped from a Russian prison, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) Director Arkady Gostev said on Monday.

The outlet RBC noted that in August 2022, two convicts briefly managed to escape from a prison in Perm Krai, but they were caught just two days later.

In 2019, the FSIN’s press service reported that over the previous 25 years, the number of successful escapes from Russian prisons had decreased by a factor of 140. According to the agency, there were 140 escapes in 1994, 25 in 2000, 11 in 2010, eight in 2015, and only one in 2018.

In November 2022, the independent outlet Mediazona reported that Russia’s prison population had seen its largest decrease in over a decade since Wagner mercenary group founder Evgeny Prigozhin had begun recruiting prisoners to fight in the war in Ukraine.

Russia reportedly plans to construct 25 new colonies and detention centers in the occupied territory of Ukraine over the next two years, according to Olga Romanova, the head of the Sitting Rus' Foundation. Romanova alleges that many employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation (FSIN) are seeking employment in these new facilities to avoid frontline duty. She claims that these employees are involved in the torture of Ukrainian partisans and prisoners of war in the occupied territories. Arkady Gostev, the director of the FSIN, stated that out of 1,600 former employees who joined the fight in Ukraine, 157 have died. Romanova asserts that FSIN employees are exploiting their positions for personal gain and are now being sent to the frontline to command prisoners. She describes a situation where half of the FSIN employees are engaged in building prisons, while the other half is sent to the frontline, creating a cycle of exploitation and manipulation within the system.

https://t.me/United24media/20326

Desperate Vladimir Putin resorts to targeting 'heat, water & power' to win war

Desperate Vladimir Putin resorts to targeting ‘heat, water & power’ to win war

UK sanctions Russian officials who enlisted criminals to fight in Ukraine Senior Russian prison officials who helped to enlist convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine have been targeted in the latest round of UK sanctions, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has said. Arkady Gostev (pictured below), director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, and Dmitry Bezrukikh, head of…

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A teeny tiny blast from the past - Joey on the set of Bloody Cakes (2016), a film that was never released. You can watch the trailer here.

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let's talk about this delightful French accent by Joey Batey

Soviet nuclear war drill. Excerpt from "Mecheny Atom" (Tracer Element) film directed by Igor Gostev, USSR, 1972

(via European Story Movie Poster, Jan Tománek, 1984)

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Movie poster designed for Igor Gostev’s drama by Czech graphic artist Jan Tománek.

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Shel’f-1 oil rig in Azerbaijan. Photos by A. Gostev (1982).

Russia’s Putin fires prison chief after torture scandal

Russia’s Putin fires prison chief after torture scandal

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fired the head of Russia’s prison service, weeks after the emergence of leaked videos that appeared to show prisoners being tortured and sexually assaulted. Alexander Kalashnikov was dismissed with immediate effect, according to a terse decree published on the Kremlin’s website. Arkady Gostev, a deputy interior minister, was appointed as his replacement. For…

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Image courtesy of Brighton Ballet Theater Co., Inc. from the 2018 Edition of the Winter Holiday Class Concert. Photo by Denis Gostev.