Russia's penitentiary system has come under scrutiny after a Kremlin critic said he was tortured at a prison camp and forced to shout, "Putin is our president!"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/25/ildar-dadin-claims-he-was-tortured-forced-to-shout/
http://ru.krymr.com/a/28197663.html
Soviet weapons earned their place in history for a very simple reason.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-soviet-unions-5-most-lethal-weapons-war-18853
Academic says contemporary accounts of suffering are very different to stories survivors now tell of triumphant resistance
http://gazeta.zn.ua/internal/svetlodarsk-scenariy-buduschey-voyny-_.html
https://lenta.ru/articles/2016/12/24/duga/
https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2016/12/23_a_10446209.shtml
Today's battle over media messaging has echoes of the Cold War. But modern disinformation in Russia also targets truth itself.
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=585CCFAE67132
http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2016/12/23/585a67139a79477881168c0f