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12 Who Don't Agree: The Battle for Freedom in Putin's Russia
By (Author) Valery Panyushkin
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Europa Editions
Europa Editions
1st March 2012
United States
General
Non Fiction
322.40947
Paperback
224
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
Journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles 12 Russians from across the country's social spectrum who have one thing in common: participation in the historic March of the Dissidents in 2007. In flagrant violation of increasingly stringent laws, they shared a belief that the government of Vladmir Putin was betraying the promise of Russia's future. Risking the threats and violent retaliation inflicted upon journalists who dare question the powers that be, Panyushkin boldy illuminates the lives and convictions of these 12 men and women.
A powerful interwoven narrative. * Publishers Weekly *
Panyushkin writes in vivid tableaux. * Los Angeles Times *
Valery Panyushkin is a well-known, and widely translated, jour- nalist and writer. He is the author of eleven books, two of which are about the Russian opposition movement, and the latest, Prison Cell #18, about repression and torture in Belarus. Panyushkin is the recipient of the Golden Pen of Russia award. He lives in Moscow. Marian Schwartz is the principal English translator of Nina Berberova, and has translated classics by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Goncharov, Mikhail Lermontov, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two NEA translation fellowships and a past presi- dent of the American Literary Translators Association.