Podcast with Lev Shlosberg - Part 2: Civil Society after the Soviet Union.

This week our guest on the podcast is Lev Markovich Shlosberg. Lev Markovich is a Russian politician, a civil society and human rights activist, and a journalist. He is chair of Yabloko’s Pskov regional branch, a member of Yabloko’s federal political committee and a deputy of Pskov regional legislative assembly from the Yabloko party. Given the length of the podcast, we have also divided it into three sections that you can listen to separately. Part Two: Civil Society after the Soviet Union. Foundation of the Revival [Vozrozhdenie] Centre for Social Design; the development of civic organizations in the 1990s; the foundation of the newspaper Pskov Gubernia; freedom of speech and the state of civil society in Russia; the case of Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva and the use of the law on “foreign agents” against Radio Liberty journalist Liudmila Savitskaya and Denis Kamalyagin, editor-in-chief of Pskov Gubernia.