Anna Shadrina is a gender researcher and writer based in London. She is a research associate at the Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), and a PhD student at Birkbeck University, London.
The work of Belarusian Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich creates a space for voices unheard and ignored. We should be wary of claims to own it. на русском языке
Russia’s elite has played the cultural conservative card for several years now, and events in Ukraine mean that Russia’s reactionary bent is likely to continue.