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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