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Irina Starovoyt, a Ukrainian poet from Lvov, spoke with CN Live! during PEN International’s annual writers’ meeting in Bled, Slovenia on Russia’s motives, the role of neo-Nazis and the 2014 events in Ukraine.
Consortium News has asked the National Press Club in Washington to join other leading press freedom organizations in calling for Julian Assange’s release.