Lev Ponomarev on Working within the System
This one is from the Boston Globe:
Freedom and fear: a Russian paradox By Cathy Young February 13, 2008 OPTIMISM is not an attitude one would expect these days from a human rights activist in Russia – not when, after rigged parliamentary elections in December, the country is in the middle of an even more farcical presidential “race”; not when media censorship is back and peaceful protesters are beaten and detained. And yet Lev Ponomarev, the executive director of the All-Russian Movement for Human Rights, sounded a surprisingly hopeful note in his talk last week at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies.