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| − | '''Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Ирина Георгиевна РатушинÑкаÑ) ([[birth|born]] [[1954]] [[March 4]] in [[Odessa]], [[Ukraine]]) is a [[Russia]]n lyric [[poetry|poet]], [[essay]]ist, and political dissident.
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| − | While in [[prison]] for her advocacy of [[human rights]], she wrote some 250 poems, first scratching them into bars of soap & then, after memorizing them, washing them away. Stikhi (Poems, 1984) was published while she is imprisoned.
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| − | ==External link==
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| − | * http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/ARCSC/collects/sc44/bio.htm]
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| − | [[Category:Human rights activists]] [[Category:Poets]]
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