Friday, 25 March 2022

Mother-tongue abusers

The writer Zinovy Zinik on the moment his granddaughter learnt about Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, and how it devastated her fairytale view of the country. Photo: Andy Butterton/PA

Ukrainian reporter forced to film propaganda video before release

Victoria Roshchina, who works for independent news channel hromadske, had to deny she was being held captive in order to be released. Read the story here.

"We will not be intimidated by people who do not like what we stand for"

Madeleine Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová, in Prague in 1937, to a Jewish family. Her family fled to London in 1939 when the Nazis invaded. They converted to Roman Catholicism and hid their true identity for decades. The first female US Secretary of State only discovered the truth and the fact that 26 members of her family had been murdered in the Holocaust as an adult. At the end of the war her family chose to return to Czechoslovakia, but this proved short-lived and they were forced to flee the Communist regime in 1949 and seek asylum in the States. Our CEO Ruth Smeeth reflects on her passing. Photo: Fiona Hanson/PA Images

Pavel Litvinov on the war in Ukraine and Index at 50

The Russian dissident Pavel Litvinov, whose letter inspired poet Stephen Spender and others to set up Index on Censorship, spoke to the BBC's Today programme about his five years' imprisonment in Siberia and the 50th anniversary of Index.

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