Anna Nemtsova on the battle to save Nizhny Novgorod
In a new article for FP, journalist Anna Nemtsova reports from her hometown of Nizhny Novgorod on the destruction of the 700-year old city’s historic architecture. It’s a personal subject for Nemtsova, whose father fought to protect the town center from the designs of Soviet planners as a Pravda reporter in the 1980s. She also ...
In a new article for FP, journalist Anna Nemtsova reports from her hometown of Nizhny Novgorod on the destruction of the 700-year old city's historic architecture. It's a personal subject for Nemtsova, whose father fought to protect the town center from the designs of Soviet planners as a Pravda reporter in the 1980s. She also shot the video above, which gives a sense of the heritage local activists are trying to preserve.
In a new article for FP, journalist Anna Nemtsova reports from her hometown of Nizhny Novgorod on the destruction of the 700-year old city’s historic architecture. It’s a personal subject for Nemtsova, whose father fought to protect the town center from the designs of Soviet planners as a Pravda reporter in the 1980s. She also shot the video above, which gives a sense of the heritage local activists are trying to preserve.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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