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Mischa Gabowitsch

Mischa Gabowitsch is editor-in-chief of Neprikosnovenny Zapas (NZ), a Russian journal of debates on politics and culture. As a sociologist, he specialises in Russian society's response to extreme nationalism. He also works as a translator and regularly writes articles about Russian politics and culture for cultural and academic journals across Europe. In 2005 he edited a collection of articles about the memory of the second world war in Russia, Germany and elsewhere.

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