«Russian political prisoner Grigory Melkonyants’s final speech in court is an ‘Ode to Joy’» in English with a Parallel Translation

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Reading time: 
10 minutes
Publication date: 
23/05/2025
Creator: 
Daria Dergacheva
Source: 
Global Voices
Language: 
English
Difficulty: 
B2

Grigory Melkonyants, head of an election monitoring group, speaks in court about hope and joy in the times of despair. Next day, he is sentenced to five years in prison

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