‘We shouldn’t exist’. Writer Linor Goralik on literary resistance, reaching Russian teenagers, and the Soviet dissident movement

Shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, poet and writer Linor Goralik founded the Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR), a literary almanac featuring antiwar essays, poetry, audio works, and artwork. A few months later, she launched News 26 (Novosti 26), an independent media outlet for teenagers in Russia. Meduza spoke with Goralik about how both projects have managed to operate during the war. The interview was conducted in English by journalist Sarah Chatta and translated into Russian by journalist Ksenia Mironova as part of a Pulitzer Center-supported series