Category: In Our Focus

We, members of St. Petersburg PEN Club and PEN Moscow, are certain that it is unacceptable for the state to censor the creative process.

Opening Ceremony Hosted in Uppsala by Swedish PEN from 27 September to 1 October 2022 – themed THE POWER OF WORDS – Future Challenges for Freedom of Expression – …

In the wake of sanctions against Russia, civilians are spending summer without work, news outlets, and affordable goods. Like many Muscovites, I am spending this summer at the dacha. …

‘Babelia’ ofrece la intervención de la especialista en Literatura Rusa Natalia Ivanova del pasado julio ante el Comité de Escritores por la Paz del PEN Internacional

Four months have passed since Russia attached Ukraine, but neither the international community nor the thinking people in Russia have managed to put a stop to the catastrophe.

vič has been held in pre-trial detention in Minsk since 4 August 2021 on charges of organising and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, under Article 342 (1) …

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and the Russian Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU) join PEN International, PEN Moscow and St Petersburg PEN in condemning the Russian authorities’ …

PEN International, PEN Moscow and St Petersburg PEN condemn the Russian authorities’ move to shut down Memorial International Society and its sister organisation Memorial Human Rights Centre, which are …

The Turkish authorities should not charge Nobel laureate and PEN International Vice President Orhan Pamuk with ‘insulting Atatürk’ and the Turkish flag, PEN International said today, as an investigation …

PEN-Moscow and the Svobodnoye Slovo (Free Speech) association express their solidarity with the International Memorial Society (an NGO considered a foreign agent by the Russian authorities) in connection with …