“People of my generation will never forget the first impression we got from Solzhenitsyn’s novel about life in Stalin’s gulag,” said Viktor Linnik, Editor-in-Chief of the weekly Slovo newspaper, who has known the writer’s family for years.

The Nobel Prize winner and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow at the age of 89. The Russian President’s special envoy on international cultural co-operation, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Solzhenitsyn was an expert on  “special Russia’s mission”.

Soviet dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89. Historian and former Soviet dissident himself Boris Kagarlitsky discussed his legacy in RT studio together with Solzhenitsyn's biographer, D.M. Thomas.

Nobel prize winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died aged 89. Solzhenitsyn's books were the first to tell millions of people across the world about Stalin’s brutal repressions. Fred Weir of the Christian Science Monitor spoke to RT about the author's controversial life and brilliant works.