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Talented solidarity: why Russia’s oldest human rights journal is important today

The Soviet underground publication Chronicle of Current Events turns 50 today. Its mission is still relevant

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Two of the Chronicle's editors, Leonid Vul and Boris Smushkevich, in 1981-1982. Source: Memorial / Personal archive of E. Yu. Shikhanovich.

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19.