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Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 p.m. instead
of 4:15:/***
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*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.
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