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Andrei Sannikov: My Story

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: March 14, 2019, 19:00 – 21:00

Meeting with Andrei Sannikov and presentation of his book.

A political and social activist, Andrei Sannikov is the coordinator of the European Belarus social programme and the Charter 97 initiative. In 2010 he stood in presidential elections in Belarus. After the rigged vote he was imprisoned. He was released 16 months later following EU pressure and forced to leave Belarus.

His autobiography My Story, largely focused on his opposition to Alexander Lukaschenko, was described by the magazine Foreign Policy as a cross between One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Nathan Sharansky’s The Case for Democracy.

The book has been translated from Russian by Magda Bělková.

Speakers: Andrei Sannikov, Jáchym Topol, René Levinský and Michal Hrubý.

Vratislav Brabenec will perform on saxophone.

Kryścina Šyjanok will interpret from Belarusian. 

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