MOSCOW : An Author Speaks
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel laureate who was once the scourge of the Soviet Union and is now a critic of the Russian government, will address Parliament members Friday.8
The Duma, the lower house of Parliament, invited the author to speak of his return after two decades in exile in the United States. Solzhenitsyn landed in Vladivostok on May 27 and embarked on a long cross-country trip to Moscow to rediscover his homeland.
He has argued that Russia has lost its spiritual bearings and is taking the wrong road away from Communism.
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