Russian Oppositional Arts Review ROAR #4
ROAR or Review of Russian Opposition Culture is an online magazine of Russian cultural creators published bimonthly from 24 April 2022. Thanks to a collaboration with the Mieroszewski Centre, the fourth issue, which came out nine months after the full-scale invasion, has just been published in Polish.
Linor Goralik, editor and initiator of ROAR, writes: "Each of my days begins with reading the submissions that poets, writers, artists, musicians, playwrights and essayists send to the ROAR editorial team. And today, in my ninth month of work, I am struck by what I see clearly: in the submissions there is anger and rage, there is pain and anxiety, there is perseverance and compassion; sometimes there is fear, sometimes fatigue, sometimes confusion, but never despair. I think ROAR addresses this space of expression, this segment of Russian-speaking culture that still has the strength to defy with every sentence and every sound, to find new forms of protest, to find ways to speak about things that are sometimes difficult to express in words. And that is why I admire our authors."
