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On 250th day of Russia’s war in Ukraine, art installation arranged in Sofia Reading about Freedom

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Sofia municipality is arranging an art installation, called Reading about freedom, on the steps leading up to the Soviet army monument in Sofia.

What all the books included have in common is that they are all dedicated to the anti-utopia of communism. The event marks the 250th day since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The books featured include George Orwell’s 1984, Herta Müller’s Everything I Own I Carry with Me, Georgi Markov’s In Absentia Reports, Anna Politkovskaya’s Putin's Russia, Milan Kunderas The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Joseph Roth’s Travels to Ukraine and Russia, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita etc. 

Renowned authors will take part in the literary readings of selected excerpts. 



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