Talks about ending the war are increasingly reduced to maps, front lines, and percentages of control. But behind the word «territories» are not kilometers, but living people: those under occupation, those who have gone through filtration camps, prisons, and secret detention facilities. Their names rarely appear in diplomatic briefings, but they are the human dimension of this tragedy. Evgenia Chirikova’s documentary projects Prisoners: Fates and Prisoners: The System of Terror investigate the mechanism of unlawful detentions and extrajudicial reprisals against civilian prisoners built by the Russian authorities. In an interview with the Sapere Aude project, Chirikova spoke about how to bring the human being back into the conversation about peace — we retell the most important points.
Evgenia Chirikova: «If American, European, and Russian Politicians Do Not Want to See Something, They Must Be Made to See It»
New article on the School's website Sapere Aude
