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Dangers of Present Times

Author(s): Jorge Edwards
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: – “Lettre Internationale”; prize for journalism; Anna Politkovskaia; Cechnia; Lev Tolstoi; Orlando letelier; Carmen Soria; Pinochet; totalitarian regime; Chile; political assassination in Russia; Political assassination in Chile; Boris Pasternak; Russian

Summary/Abstract: The death of Anna Politkovskaia reveals the fact that in Putin’s Russia the old totalitarian methods of eliminating the regime’s opponents are still used against journalists, free-lancers and businessmen who dared criticize the official politics, journalism, no matter how combative, has a very small influence on the government’s actions – an opinion voiced by Putin that is symptomatic for post-Soviet Russia

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 110-111
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: Romanian
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