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‘Edge of Europe’ thirty years later – revisiting Applebaum’s East to West 38 Shelling several kilometres outside Zolote villages in Luhansk region, Ukraine, March 2020 / B. Gerdžiūnas/LRT Around the same time as Lithuania declared independence, US journalist and writer Anne Applebaum began her journey across the east. What did she witness then and what would she find on "the edge of Europe" some 30 years later?  "This isolation [in Eastern Europe] and the accompanying desolation, wer...

The criminal political trial of Ukrainian historian and dissident Valentyn Moroz was taking place on November 17, 1970. Several dissidents were called by the Soviet government to testify for the prosecution against the defendant.  Among them was the dissident Shestydesiatnyk artist Alla Horska. Alla refused to testify, as did the others. Nevertheless, with no evidence, which was not a problem in Soviet trials, Valentyn Moroz was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and sentenced t...