This week we lead with the alarming news that Irina Teplinskaya, friend of the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum and renowned human rights activist currently undertaking litigation against the Russian Government, has been arrested while crossing the Russian border. Our lead article is an impassioned
2010's Nobel laureate in literature has trodden a political path from defender of the Cuban revolution to an embrace of Popperian liberalism. But what are the constant themes of his literary production?
