Ticket to the Arctic: Inside Russia's system of convict labour


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  • Thursday, 11 Sep 2025

FILE PHOTO: Cars drive along a road during a snowstorm in the Arctic city of Norilsk, Russia, March 19, 2025. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -It was a mild spring evening in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, but Yekaterina Fatyanova was scrambling to pack winter clothes.

With just a few hours' notice, the Siberian activist and part-time newspaper editor had been ordered to board a plane the next day and fly 1,500 km (930 miles) north, beyond the Arctic Circle, to serve a two-year punishment for violating Russia's war censorship laws.

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