On Monday, October 28 Sergei Lebedev will deliver the eighth October Lecture in the Rode Hoed in Amsterdam. The lecture is an initiative of RAAM – platform for knowledge, analysis and debate on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Sergei Lebedev is a writer, poet and journalist. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages and deal with the impact of the Soviet past and Stalin’s repressions on present-day Russia. The New York Review of Books praised Lebedev as “the best of Russia’s younger generation of writers”. Next year will see the publication of his latest novel, ‘The Lady of the Mine’, which describes the early stages of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine in 2014 and the shooting down of flight MH17.
Jane Lezina
Jane Lezina
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Women from Russia and Belarus have been at the forefront of resisting the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and its repression of dissent from the start.
Women have been at the forefront of...
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