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Belarus, Latvia: “Ploshcha”

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 @ 23:36 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Belarus, Latvia
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Arts & Culture, Cyber-Activism, Elections, Film, Governance, History, Human Rights, Law, Media, Protest, International Relations, Politics, Language
Languages:: Belarusian

Marginalia watches Ploshcha (”The Square”), a film about the March 2006 mass protests in Minsk - “and watching it is a good way to mark Ceauşescu's birthday and Suharto's death” - and muses on freedom in Latvia and the lack of it in Belarus.

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