HAY-ON-WYE, Wales - In the view of Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Russia is taking refuge in ideas from its Soviet past, but this nostalgia collides with newer, darker forces. In an interview with The Associated Press at the Hay Festival of literature, the 68-year-old Alexievich assessed what she has learned from decades of talking with the ordinary people of the Soviet Union and the countries that emerged after its 1991 collapse.
Associated Press: Nobel laureate makes grim assessment of post-Soviet life
The laureate of the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, Belorussian writer and dissident Svetlana Alexievich, speaks during a press conference in Berlin on October 10, 2015.
