40 years later, Russia is still silencing the voices of Chernobyl

By Miquel Cabal Guarro, Professor lector, Secció d'Estudis Eslaus, Departament de Llengües i Literatures Modernes, Universitat de Barcelona

In June 2018 I had the opportunity to visit Minsk, the capital of Belarus. In a large bookshop in the city centre – beneath the inquisitorial gaze of the ever-present portraits of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko – I asked the bookseller for one of the volumes of Svetlana Alexievich’s collected works. The Russian publisher Vremya had reissued them after the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015.
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