Press Release, 6.10.2022

Photo: The cover of the film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” by imprisoned journalist and politician Vladimir Kara-Murza

On 11 October, the Yabloko party will host a screening of a Vladimir Kara-Murza film “My Duty to Not Stay Silent” about priest Georgy Edelstein. The screening will be held at the Yabloko office in Moscow starting at 18:30.

“If we stay silent, we participate in the evil that is happening in our world. I must say what I think.” Georgy Edelstein always adhered to this principle: both in his former, secular life, and during the years of his church service. A man of amazing fate, as complex as the century in which he had to live. A non-Soviet person in Soviet society. A defender of freedom who rejects the title of dissident; a village priest in Russia who was restored to his parish by President Reagan and whose son would become an Israeli statesman. A man who has been always telling the truth – about the state persecuting for the faith, and about the church hierarchs who participated in this. “My duty is not to stay silent. Silence, I am convinced of it, betrays God.”

The film was awarded two special prizes at the 26th Stalker International Film Festival (Moscow, 2020).

Vadim Prokhorov, a lawyer of Vladimir Kara-Murza, Nikolai Rybakov, Yabloko Chairman, Grigory Yavlinsky, Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee, and many others will take part in the event. The host of the event will be Kirill Goncharov, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko.

The author of the film, Vladimir Kara-Murza, journalist and politician, has been imprisoned since 11 April, 2022. He will address the audience with a welcome letter.

The film screening and the discussion will take place in the Yabloko office at the address: Moscow, Pyatnitskaya 31, building 2. Admission to the event is free. Please sign up via the link.