Veteran human rights campaigner Lena SANNIKOVA will speak at Pushkin House, London, on Tuesday, 14 May at 7 pm about political prisoners in Putin's Russia and the Soviet Union and the many other opponents and victims of both regimes ♦ Over the past ten years, the level of repression has been rising in Russia. Today … Continue reading Moral resistance, then & now (14 May 2019)
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“The freight and the groove” (2000)
Prisoners of an old regime ♣ Marjorie Farquharson ♣ (July 2000) When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in previous decades seemed to be merely a dry-run. Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1938-1993) became Georgia’s first freely-elected President after the Soviet Union collapsed, with a mandate … Continue reading “The freight and the groove” (2000)
