by Pavel FILONOV (1883-1941) “Painting is the universally intelligible language of the artist.” A picture suggests a single conclusion, which … More
Tag: USSR*
Leonard Ternovsky, 1933-2006
“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More
Tatyana Velikanova, 1932-2002
Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More
Larisa Bogoraz (1929-2004)
Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More
Remembering Marjorie
Irina SAFRONOVA. Marjorie and I met in 1991 in Moscow when Marjorie was setting up an Amnesty office there. For … More
Kronid Lyubarsky (1935-1996)
For over 25 years, Kronid Lyubarsky was one of the driving forces behind the human rights movement in Russia. His … More
The Freight and the Groove (2000)
When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in … More
Marjorie 