colony((a group of people who form) a settlement in one country etc. which is under the rule of another country; a collection of animals, birds etc., of one type, living together); dependency; settlement; commune(хиппи, деклассированных элементов и т.п.); forced labour camp(Alexander Demidov); prison colony(Khodorkovsky's business partner and associate Platon Lebedev, who was initially sent to a prison colony above the Arctic Circle, has also reportedly been transferred from the Russian capital. TG. A participant in a May 6 anti-Putin demonstration was sentenced Friday to four and a half years in a prison colony for fighting with riot police officers in the first adjudication of 18 similar cases that have sent a shudder through the city's new ranks of middle-class political activists. NYT Alexander Demidov); labour camp(a place in which people are kept as prisoners and forced to do hard physical work in bad conditions. CALD Alexander Demidov); penal colony(Habarovka); prison settlement(The Moscow Times Alexander Demidov)
