Komi Republic

A concrete cross erected in Komi republic, in memory of Polish prisoners, was also found demolished.

While Putin was deep in the Soviet fold in the 1980s, Mr. Pavlovsky spent three years in internal exile in the sub-Arctic Komi Republic after conviction for anti-Soviet activities that included links to publications calling for political reforms.

In February 2016, a series of explosions at a coal mine in the Komi republic of northern Russia killed 36 miners and rescuers, prompting an investigation across all mines.

One of the new communist deputies elected is the staunch regime critic Oleg Mikhailov, 34, from the Komi Republic in northern Russia.

Komi Republic, a remote northern region with a scattered population, shot up to be the second-worst covid-19 locale in the country per capita after an outbreak that began in one hospital and spread to another.