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Ratushinskaya

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Ratushinskaya [ˌrætuːˈʃɪnskaɪjɑː]
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(Biographies / Ratushinskaya, Irina (1954 F, Russian, WRITING: poet, WRITING: writer) Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer, living in Britain: imprisoned (1983-86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)


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The experience was to lead to friendships with several former Soviet dissidents, including Solzhenitsyn himself, Irina Ratushinskaya and Vladimir Bukovsky.
In 1986 he campaigned vigorously for the release of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya, who was imprisoned unfairly by the Soviet regime.
In the 1980s he locked himself in a replica of a Soviet prison cell for 46 days during Lent to highlight the plight of Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya.
 
 
 
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