Political prisoners in Russia since 2022
Speakers
- Manon Loizeau, investigative journalist, Albert Londres Prize, co-director of the documentary Politzek
- Sacha Koulaeva, international human rights expert, member of the Russian Memorial movement (Nobel Peace Prize 2022), teacher at SciencesPo Paris (PSIA), co-author of the film Politzek
- Anne Le Huérou, sociologist, lecturer in Slavic studies at Paris Nanterre University, researcher at the Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP)
Documentary summary
In Russia, criticizing the war in Ukraine or Vladimir Putin's regime has become a crime. Thousands of ordinary citizens are being arrested, tried and imprisoned. They are known as "Politzek", political prisoners. Through the intersecting stories of a teenager sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing power on social networks, a young artist imprisoned for sticking anti-war labels, a human rights activist and a theater director undergoing Kafkaesque trials, deciphering the repressive machine of the Russian state.
Production company: Babel DOC / Clin d'oeil Films / France Télévisions
Directed by: Manon Loizeau, Ekaterina Mamontova
Written by: Manon Loizeau, Sacha Koulaeva
Film languages: French + Russian with French subtitles
The Observatory of Contemporary Russia
The Observatory of Contemporary Russia (co-hosted by Sylvia Chassaing, Laurent Coumel and Julien Vercueil) monitors current events in this country, bringing in specialists in the humanities and social sciences, from literature to economics, via history, geography, political science, sociology, anthropology and linguistics, in a format open to a wide audience: round tables, book presentations, film screenings and debates. It aspires to shed light on contemporary issues linked to conflicts - the war against Ukraine among them - crises and transformations of this state born of the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Organization
- Laurent Coumel (CREE, Inalco)