Rain TV, OpenRussia create YouTube channel for anti-war poetry reading ahead of peace march

Rain TV, the independent news channel, has teamed up with the multimedia news portal OpenRussia to create a YouTube video channel devoted to readings of anti-war poetry in advance of the peace march set to commence this Sunday in Moscow.

The channel, which now comprises eight videos, features filmmakers, actors and other cultural figures reading from a selection of anti-war poetry from Russian and French poets, including Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Jacques Prévert and Louis Aragon. Among those reciting are theatre director Vladimir Mirzoev, actor Alexei Devotchenko and history teacher Tamara Eidelman.

Earlier today, the pro-Kremlin media outlet LifeNews reported that the protest march against the Russian government’s position on Ukraine, which was approved by officials, had been cancelled. However, the post has since been removed from the website.

The YouTube channel can be found here.

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