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Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Anna Narinskaya. Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky.
In recent years and, particularly, in recent months in Russia, a distinct oral/literary genre has re-emerged -- the “final statement” of a defendant. Paradoxically, the “cage” in a court room (in today’s Russia, the accused are put in a bullet-proof glass booth) appears as the only remaining place where a person can still speak freely. Thus, it can be said, without exaggeration, that the courtroom, where people are tried for dissent, is a last bastion of freedom of speech in today’s Russia. And the voices that reach us, despite the obstacles, help the external world to understand the conditions in which people live under Putinism. We explore the final statements delivered by women. Women’s resistance is directed not only against the political system in today’s Russia, but also against the patriarchal way of life, which support this system. Because of this, women are more vulnerable and, as a result, their political statements frequently are more radical than their male counterparts’. A lonely female voice stands up against the omnipresent violence.
