Not quite a return to the gulag archipelago but disturbing nonetheless. The worst part is with our diminished record on human rights over the past 7 years our protests and/or condemnation of this will not go very far in the world.
Bret Stephens, the foreign affairs columnist in the Wall Street Journal, discusses the article here.
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/..._discusses.htm
I will not link to the free versions of the article around the web (just Google "Putin's Torture Colonies" and you'll find them everywhere) but I highly suggest reading a copy of it if you can. Its an important op-ed and a sad testament to the state of affairs in Russia.