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Andrei Filimonov

Andrei Filimonov is a writer and editor who has contributed to RFE/RL's Russian Service and its regional outlets since 2016. An award-winning fiction author now based in Germany, Filimonov was raised in the Siberian city of Tomsk and received a philosophy degree from Tomsk State University. He has been designated as a "foreign agent" by the Russian Justice Ministry.

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July 26, 2023
'A City Of Dreams': Russian-Born Artist Describes Life Under Bombardment In Ukraine's Odesa

A Russian-born poet, designer, and artist who has lived in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa since 2015 describes how the war has enraged a city that was once favorably inclined toward Russia. “Now there are no people like that,” she said.
July 24, 2023
How A Russian Activist Comforts Political Prisoners, One Letter At A Time

Yelena Sannikova, a 63-year-old writer and former political prisoner, has dedicated her life to supporting Russians imprisoned for their political beliefs. Since she was a teenager, she has been writing letters to prisoners, not even stopping when she was in Siberian exile herself.
July 05, 2018
Cannibal Island: In 1933, Nearly 5,000 Died In One Of Stalin's Most Horrific Labor Camps

Eighty-five years ago this summer, more than 4,000 people died of disease, exposure, violence, and starvation at a Stalinist labor camp on Nazinsky Island in Siberia. Until 1988, the Soviet government suppressed the story of those hellish six weeks on what came to be known as Cannibal Island.
June 15, 2018
'Extremist' Faith: Russian Jehovah's Witnesses Report Wave Of Police Raids, Detentions

Seventeen Jehovah's Witnesses have been jailed in Russia in the year since Moscow declared the denomination an "extremist organization." And raids on the homes of believers continue across the country.
January 22, 2017
Son Of A Stalinist Executioner: One Man's Lifelong Struggle To Understand Why

Valery Rodos's father was one of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's most brutal and notorious executioners. He has spent decades searching his soul for the ways that the past shaped his life.

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