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On Wednesday, February 16, 2022, the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Board came to Dnipro to support Ukrainians in the eastern part of the country, learn about the current situation, and pass their analysis to international leaders at the Munich Security Conference where Victor Pinchuk Foundation and YES will hold the Ukrainian Lunch on February 19.

The prosecution alleged Yury Dmitriyev sexually abused his adopted daughter. Campaigners have said the trial against the historian, who uncovered Stalin-era mass graves, is part of a crackdown on dissenters.

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev, who also serves as a local head of the Memorial rights group, was found guilty of abusing his adopted daughter. His supporters say charges against him are politically motivated.

Long under-appreciated in the French book business, literary agents are making headway in rights and representation. A new report looks at their gains. 

With presidential backing, Ukraine has held two weeks of events including exhibitions, an academic conference and documentary film premieres to mark the massacre

Von 13. bis 19. September 2021 wird der Dokumentarfilm gefeiert: In dieser Zeit finden die bundesweiten Dokumentarfilmtage "LETsDOK" statt. Das BR Fernsehen präsentiert dazu am 18. September "Die lange Nacht des Dokumentarfilms".

Distant, northerly Russia, and its austere inhabitants have attracted the interest of authors around the world. Many have sought to place their characters in a Russian setting or to spice up their novels by adding a Russian protagonist.

Share Its brief was simple — ‘to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it’. This it has done ever since by publicising an annual shortlist of toe-curling extracts from the sex scenes of a handful of novels published that year, and then announcing the winner at a high-toned party just before Christmas in central London at which the winner, should they have the courage to turn up, is a...