Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

once part of the former Soviet Union. Xinjiang has been under control of China since it was annexed in 1949. Many Uighurs still identify their homeland by its previous name, East Turkestan.

In the 1990s, separatist movements there grew after the Soviet Union fell and independent ... in what he calls the country of East Turkestan. With the creation of the People's Republic of China ...

The Uighurs in Xinjiang have a history of initiating an independence movement in the 1930s under the name "East Turkestan." Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changing political ...