"Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by art Spiegelman, has been taken out of bookstores. A Ukrainian parliament recently voted to ban all "propaganda of the totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes" a cameraman for a Crimean Tatar television channel has been detained.
"Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by art Spiegelman, has been taken out of bookstores. A Ukrainian parliament recently voted to ban all "propaganda of the totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes" a cameraman for a Crimean Tatar television channel has been detained.
"Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by art Spiegelman, has been taken out of bookstores. A Ukrainian parliament recently voted to ban all "propaganda of the totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes" a cameraman for a Crimean Tatar television channel has been detained.
bookstores Maus, the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, has been taken out of Moscow bookstores this past December. In the book, which tells Spiegelmans familys story, Jews are portrayed as mice and Germans as cats.
Russian Artist Jailed for Organizing
Unsanctioned Rally in Siberia The Amnesty International human rights group has declared a Russian artist to be a "prisoner of consciousness" after he was sentenced to 10 days in jail for organizing a colorful anti-government demonstration.
World Press Freedom Day: call to
protect freedom of expression The Guardian is among more than 50 organizations using World Press Freedom Day to call on governments to protect freedom of expression in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo and increasing state surveillance and censorship.
Ukraines ban on communist
propaganda e Ukrainian parliament recently voted to ban all propaganda of the totalitarian communist and Nazi regimes. At first I didnt think this could be true: it sounded like a too-perfect confirmation of Kremlin talking points about the fascists running around Kiev.
Crimean TV cameraman detained
A cameraman for a Crimean Tatar television channel that was shut down by the Russian authorities controlling the Black Sea peninsula has been detained over a clash in February 2014, shortly before its annexation by Moscow. The Russian authorities are prosecuting several Crimean Tatars over actions that undermined freedom of expression in Crimea.
Russia's New Totalitarianism
Depends on Silence famous Soviet-era dissident and human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva warned that Russia, having already long previously become an authoritarian state, risked mutating into something much worse a new totalitarianism. With the recent murder of Boris Nemtsov still unsolved and pressure growing daily on freedom of expression "on moral and religious grounds," that warning takes on even greater urgency today.
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company "Of course, there was nothing extremist about any of the stuff we do - we just believe in freedom of expression,
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