The Story of Russia is about how the Russians defined themselves-and repeatedly reinvented such definitions along the way. Both sides were using history to create myths, narratives of national identity that could be deployed for their own political ends. Who were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing from within the territory that would become Russia? Or were they Vikings from Scandinavia, who came in from the outside to organize chaotic warring groups? Russians initially embraced the former theory, following a surge in nationalist sentiment, but autocrats, including Catherine the Great, came to trumpet the latter, which supported the notion that the Russian people are incapable of self-governance. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.From "the great storyteller of Russian history" ( Financial Times), a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia's identity and politics from its founding Pasquale Esposito (actor, singer, filmmaker) Éric Cantona (actor, former professional footballer) John Burnham Schwartz (writer, screenwriter) Ingrid Betancourt (politician, activist, writer) Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer, choreographer) Svetlana Alexievitch (journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner) Paige Alexander (CEO of the Carter Center) Michael Abramowitz (president of Freedom House)
authorities, and the European Union demanding his immediate release. We support the call of the German government, the U.S.
Navalny is serving prison sentences based on charges which would never have been upheld under any independent legal system. A further 100 Russian lawyers and 100 regional deputies are demanding that the torture of Navalny cease and again that medical assistance be provided. We add our voices to those of the 600 Russian doctors requesting urgent and immediate independent medical help. Despite running a fever, he is required to stand all day. Visits from relatives and phone calls are forbidden, his attorney-client privileges have been canceled. He has been consistently returned to solitary confinement, squeezed into a concrete cell the size of a dog kennel, with no ventilation. As we write and you are well aware, Alexei Navalny is being held in IK-6, one of the harshest penal colonies in your country.
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