Ratushinskaya

British

/ ˌrætuːˈʃɪnskaɪjɑː /

noun

Irina (ɪˈriːnə). born 1954, Russian poet and writer: imprisoned (1983–86) in a Soviet labour camp on charges of subversion. Her publications include Poems (1984), Grey is the Colour of Hope (1988), and The Odessans (1992)

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And on the day Sakharov's release was announced, Irina Ratushinskaya, a dissident poet who was freed from a labor camp last October, was allowed to travel to London to join her husband.

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