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Russian writer Kirill Medvedev discusses intellectual property, the concept of the common good and his vision for the future of ideas.
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Maidan: one year on
Andrey Kurkov, Vice-President of Ukrainian PEN, reports on his country's revolution and counter-revolution after the first year
The Red Terror and Maximilian Voloshin
Robert Chandler writes about one of the hidden gems in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
You speak such good German
Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author
Life and Fate Redux
Robert Chandler writes from the first Russian conference on Vasily Grossman, author of the monumental Life and Fate,
Soldier No. 9
Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
Russian déjà vu at Sochi 2014 – who lost the games?
Mikhail Shishkin writes our second PEN Atlas dispatch on the Sochi Winter Olympics, a story of billion-dollar corruption, Soviet-style propaganda, and a regime bent on hiding opposition and urban decay behind sports kitsch and a new coat of paint.
The duty to write
Journalist-turned-freedom-fighter Mikail Eldin writes for PEN Atlas on his experience of the Chechen wars, and how writing a memoir is a way to honour fallen friends, who risked their lives to ensure he might live to tell their story
Worlds apart: Russia online and offline
In this week's PEN Atlas piece, Arkady Babchenko writes on freedom of speech, media and the internet in Russia
