Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Susan Richards is a founder of openDemocracy. She has produced a number of feature films and written a prize-winning book, 'Epics of Everyday Life', about the lives of ordinary Russians in the transition from communism. 'Lost & Found in Russia', 'Encounters in the Deep Heartland', which covers the period 1992-2008, was published by IB Tauris in May 2009.
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Against the backdrop of Soviet disintegration, a grassroots campaign was launched from Britain to send hundreds of...
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It took an unlikely combination of talents to start building openDemocracy’s Tower of Babel, comments one of its founders