The idea behind ROAR (Resistance and Opposition Arts Review) online project, launched on April 24, 2022, and published bi-monthly, is to introduce its readers to the artifacts of contemporary culture making a stand against today’s criminal political regime in Russia and the war in Ukraine unleashed by it. We’re trying to unite a lot of voices opposing not only the current Russian authorities but also the loyalist and servile official culture, which in extremes merges with the blatant propaganda serving those authorities.
We work with all genres, from poetry to music scores, from articles to fiction, from web design objects to art reproductions, graffiti, and short videos. We are not, by any means, an exclusive platform offering the possibility of expression for the oppositional Russian authors; yet it is an honor for us to become one of such platforms with the help of those who put their works in our hands.
Every ROAR issue is published at least in two languages: as a complete mutilingual version and as a digest in English. We will be incredibly grateful to those of you who might be interested in making the digests of ROAR in other languages. If this is something you might be interested in doing, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
Even now, we’re looking forward to the moment when ROAR is closed forever, that is, the moment when there is no more need to label a certain segment of the Russian-language culture as opposing the criminal Russian regime, solely by reason of the fact that this regime ceases to exist. However, before it happens, we’ll be doing what we can to ensure that ROAR, made only through volunteer effort, continues to come out.
If you have any questions, or you want to discuss possibilities for a collaboration, or you are willing to offer your own works for publication, you can always contact us at [email protected]. We’re always happy to get in touch with the authors whose works we’ve accepted for publication. Unfortunately, we don’t have an opportunity to contact those whose works are not accepted, but we’re deeply grateful to every one of our potential authors for trusting us.
Yours faithfully,
Linor Goralik, ROAR Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and the ROAR team
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