Marginalia watches Ploshcha (“The Square”) [1], a film about the March 2006 mass protests in Minsk – “and watching it is a good way to mark Ceauşescu's birthday and Suharto's death” – and muses on freedom in Latvia and the lack of it in Belarus.
Belarus, Latvia: “Ploshcha”
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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