“Revolution is when suddenly it’s not scary”

Natan Sharansky - about doublethink, repression and correspondence with Alexei Navalny. Video interview conducted by journalist Vladimir Raevsky

On March 21, Meduza published an interview with Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who served a nine-year sentence in the Soviet Union on charges of “treason,” but in reality for his work defending human rights. Sharansky is one of the main participants in the movement in support of the right of Jews to repatriate to Israel from the USSR.

Journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Raevsky spoke with Nathan Sharansky. He published the full recording of the interview - it is more detailed than the text that was published on Meduza. Look.

Interview of Nathan Sharansky with Vladimir Raevsky in text form - here .

And here is a translation of Natan Sharansky’s column published in The Economist. In this text, Sharansky spoke about his correspondence with Alexei Navalny, which he conducted shortly before the death of the main opposition politician in Russia.

The Meduza publishing house published Nathan Sharansky’s book “I will fear no evil.” Alexey Navalny read it when he was in prison. Read it too.