The Lviv BookForum curator on organising a festival during a war, the importance of countering Russian colonialism and remembering fallen friends
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John Sweeney remembers Ukrainian novelist turned war crimes investigator Victoria Amelina, who has died in a Russian rocket attack on a watering hole favoured by journalists
Finding the truth about what is happening in Russia is almost impossible but the country’s remaining independent media are working hard to do so
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Ukranian collective explores the making of art in time of war
A year on from the invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the stakes in Belarus have never been higher
Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine mirrors the two bloody wars for independence in Chechnya. But those speaking out publicly against Ramzan Kadyrov’s pro-Putin policies are being harshly silenced
The powerful work tells the stories of indigenous Tatar dissidents and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula