Author: Miquel Cabal Guarro, Professor lector, Secció d'Estudis Eslaus, Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes, Universitat de Barcelona

40 years later, Russia is still silencing the voices of Chernobyl

Miquel Cabal Guarro, Professor lector, Secció d'Estudis Eslaus, Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes, Universitat de BarcelonaLeave a Comment on 40 years later, Russia is still silencing the voices of Chernobyl

In June 2018 I had the opportunity to visit Minsk, the capital of Belarus. In a large bookshop in the city centre – beneath the inquisitorial gaze of the ever-present portraits of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko – I asked the bookseller for one of the volumes of Svetlana Alexievich’s collected works. The Russian publisher Vremya […]

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