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Stephen Norris

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An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia - from resistance to retreat to exile - one mural at a time

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By Stephen Norris
| Yahoo
Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as the personal journey she has taken – affords a chance to see how dictatorship can develop and strengthen across a decade. In 2019, I invited Lomasko – who goes by Vika for short – to Miami University, where I teach Imperial Russian and Soviet history.
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An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia - from resistance to retreat to exile - one mural at a time

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By Stephen Norris
| SFGate
In these years, Lomasko documented how protests shrunk to local levels – truckers who decried a new tax, Muscovites who lamented the destruction of local parks, and urban activists who protested plans to tear down Soviet-era apartments. She still depicted participants as everyday heroes, yet she also noticed how protesters’ brief sense of power through collective action faded into disillusionment after the Kremlin went ahead with its plans.
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A Catholic Layman’s Appeal to Overcome Global Poverty

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By Stephen Norris
| Our Community Now
Share I keep in my desk drawer a cherished remembrance of my baptism. It is the thin gold necklace and medallion of the Blessed Mother that was given to me by a former archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Patrick O’Boyle. Years earlier, the same Cardinal O’Boyle who baptized me had married my parents, James and Amanda Norris, in the Lady Chapel of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.
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