Helsinki In one of our last meetings in St. Petersburg we met with a brilliant young lawyer who had made a specialty of the new non-profit laws as the director of the Center for Education and Research Programs. Maria Kazankova had a doctorate in law and was making it her mission with precision …
Category: International
Anna’s Tears
St. Petersburg We had been riding the jitney bus on Nevsky Prospect through the solid traffic even though it was way after 8 PM. Our translator pointed out lights on the 2nd story of the Press Building as we slowly passed on the other side. That was the office of Anna Sharogradskay, who …
Organizing Activists II–Alex
St. Petersburg From almost the first conversations we had upon entering Russia, it seemed that everyone, whether labor or lawyer or civil society, would mention something about the excitement all over the progressive communities in the country at the strikes at the Ford production plant in St. Petersburg. They would never say it quite …