{"id":349,"date":"2026-02-19T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/?p=349"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:09:35","slug":"film-screening-and-letter-writing-to-political-prisoners-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2026\/02\/19\/film-screening-and-letter-writing-to-political-prisoners-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Film screening and Letter Writing to political prisoners in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Poster-print-1.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, students from Prof. Dossi&#8217;s RUSSN 268: <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2026\/02\/01\/the-muslim-in-russian-literature\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"295\">The Muslim in Russian Literature<\/a> and Prof. Morse&#8217;s Intermediate Russian II and WRIT 120e: <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2025\/01\/01\/a-real-house-of-dragons-word-world-in-medieval-rus\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"44\">Riding and Writing<\/a> braved driving snow and slick roads to attend a film screening and letter writing event at Carleton College.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elena Mityushina, the head of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/raw_minnesota\/\">Russians Against War-MN<\/a>\u201d introduced the film and spoke about political prisoners in Russia and Russian asylum-seekers in MN. After the talk and screening, students wrote letters to Russian political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event was co-sponsored by the Carleton College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carleton.edu\/russian\/\">Russian Department<\/a> and the St. Olaf <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/russian\/\">Department of Russian Language and Area Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 18, 2026, students from Prof. Dossi&#8217;s RUSSN 268: The Muslim in Russian Literature and Prof. Morse&#8217;s Intermediate Russian II and WRIT 120e: Riding and Writing braved driving snow and slick roads to attend a film screening and letter writing event at Carleton College. Elena Mityushina, the head of \u201cRussians Against War-MN\u201d introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-event"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}