[Daviscenter-list] Mon. 2/26 Sakharov Seminar moved up to 4:00

*/ Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 p.m. instead of 4:15:/*** * * *Monday, February 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"They Chose Freedom"/ Documentary film and discussion Vladimir Kara Murza, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, TRVi Television Network; Cochair of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko Joint Mission in the U.S. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:00-6:00 p.m. Narrated primarily through interviews with prominent Russian dissidents, */They Chose Freedom/* (2005) tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the late 1950s until the 1990s. Public readings of banned poetry on Mayakovsky Square, the development of samizdat, the 1965 and 1968 opposition demonstrations in Moscow, and the harsh repressions unleashed against dissidents by Communist authorities are all reflected in the film. It also focuses on events leading to the collapse of Soviet dictatorship and the democratic revolution of August 1991, and the addresses the future of Russia. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu