Russian writer Kirill Medvedev discusses intellectual property, the concept of the common good and his vision for the future of ideas.
Read MoreMaidan: one year on
Andrey Kurkov, Vice-President of Ukrainian PEN, reports on his country’s revolution and counter-revolution after the first year
Read MoreThe Red Terror and Maximilian Voloshin
Robert Chandler writes about one of the hidden gems in The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Read MoreYou speak such good German
Alina Bronsky, Russian-born but writing in German, charts the challenges and opportunities faced by the multilingual author
Read MoreLife and Fate Redux
Robert Chandler writes from the first Russian conference on Vasily Grossman, author of the monumental Life and Fate,
Read MoreSoldier No. 9
Andrey Kurkov reports on the latest news from Ukraine,
Read MoreRussian déjà vu at Sochi 2014 – who lost the games?
Mikhail Shishkin writes our second PEN Atlas dispatch on the Sochi Winter Olympics,
Read MoreThe duty to write
Journalist-turned-freedom-fighter Mikail Eldin writes for PEN Atlas on his experience of the Chechen wars
Read MoreWorlds apart: Russia online and offline
In this week’s PEN Atlas piece, Arkady Babchenko writes on freedom of speech, media and the internet in Russia
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