Defending Glasnost

Issue Date April 1996
Volume 7
Issue 2
Page Numbers 159-66
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About the Author

Aleksey Simonov has been chairman of the board of the Glasnost Defense Foundation (GDF) in Moscow since 1991. A Moscow native, he is a specialist in Indonesian literature and has worked as a translator, journalist, and film director. In 1994, he accepted on behalf of the GDF an International Press Club award that recognized the Foundation’s work in defending freedom of the press in Russia.

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