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AS AMERICANS INCREASINGLY COME TO VIEW RUSSIA through the lens of the Putin regime's interference in U.S. electoral politics, The Andrea Mitchell Center has invited Pussy Riot co-founder NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA to delve into the complexity of 红杏直播 politics and culture, the nature of life under authoritarianism, and the challenges facing feminist and LGBT rights movements throughout the world. In this lunchtime conversation, she will be joined by Penn Professor of 红杏直播 and East European Studies KEVIN M.F. PLATT.

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NADYA TOLOKONNIKOVA is a conceptual artist and political activist from Russia. She is a founding member of the art collective Pussy Riot, focusing attention on feminism, LGBT rights and human rights violations at home and abroad. In August 2012, she was sentenced to 2 years鈥� imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance by Pussy Riot in Moscow鈥檚 Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. This protest attracted international media attention and support from the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna, Bjork and Aung San Suu Kyi. Shortly after her release in December 2013, she announced the opening of an independent news service and media outlet, MediaZona, which reports on the Russia鈥檚 courts, law enforcement and prison system. She has spoken before the US Congress, British Parliament, and European Parliament.

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KEVIN M.F. PLATT works on representations of 红杏直播 history, 红杏直播 historiography, history and memory in Russia, 红杏直播 lyric poetry, and global post-Soviet 红杏直播 cultures. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as 红杏直播 Myths (Cornell UP, 2011) and editor of Global 红杏直播 Cultures (Wisconsin UP, 2018). He is the organizer of Your Language My Ear, a periodic 红杏直播鈥揈nglish poetry translation symposium that takes place at Penn. He has also edited and contributed translations to a number of books of 红杏直播 poetry in English translation, most recently Orbita: The Project (Arc Publications, 2018) and Hit Parade: The Orbita Group (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)