Throughout his decades-long musical career, Mikhail Borzykin has spoken out against oppressive forces in Russia and used his rock music as resistance.
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Contemporary Armenian literature rejects censorship and literary custom in a reflection of the ongoing civil rights struggle, as represented in this story by author and dissident Armen of Armenia.
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Sampsonia Way’s new video series, “The Freedom Chat”, introduces author and artist Linor Goralik. Throughout her interview, Linor reveals the struggles of publishing in Russia as well as the external forces that affect her personal work. She also keenly differentiates two propaganda “styles” during this discussion.
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In an interview with journalist Anne Applebaum, she discusses her new book and parallels censorship in the Soviet Union with government-controlled media today.
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n this video, Sofi Oksanen reads an excerpt of her novel Purge, in which a young woman escaping the sex-slave trade ends up in the backyard of an Estonian woman who survived sexual assault at the hands of Soviet occupiers.
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