A North Korean forced labor survivor describes earning $800 a month but keeping only $10, with passports seized and no way to ...

North Korean workers in Russia allowed only one shower a year and ‘treated worse than cattle’ - Kim Jong Un’s overseas labour ...

Russia funneled about $33.4 million to N. Korean workers under the guise of scholarships, according to a report released ...

Vitaly Zvyagnitsev, a 30-year-old Russian citizen who arrived in Israel with a foreign worker permit, was arrested in early December 2025 on suspicion of maintaining contact with Iranian operatives. A ...

Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation, with only ...

North Koreans sent to Russian construction sites work 16 hours a day with almost no days off, live in unsanitary conditions ...

However, they have already encountered difficulties. In Russia’s Pskov region, migrant workers from Sri Lanka who began ...

A Bangladeshi man, Maksudur Rahman, was reportedly lured from his tropical homeland to Russia with the promise of a janitorial job, only to find himself thrust onto the front lines of the war in ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war ...

LAKSHMIPUR, Bangladesh (AP) — A labor recruiter persuaded Maksudur Rahman to leave the tropical warmth of his hometown in Bangladesh and travel thousands of miles to frigid Russia for a job as a ...