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Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Exhibition Garners World Headlines

Diaries of Gareth Jones

In coordination with the Wren Library, Trinity College, and in partnership with Nigel Lisan Colley and Margaret Siriol Colley, Dr Rory Finnin (Director, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies) mounted an exhibition of the 1933 diaries of Gareth Jones, a Cambridge alumnus who was the only journalist to stake his name and reputation in exposing Stalin's brutal terror-famine of 1932-33 to the world. The opening of the exhibition coincided with the sold-out British premiere of Serhii Bukovs'kyi's The Living, which headlined the Second Annual Cambridge Festival of Ukrainian Film.

News of the exhibition was featured around the world in such media outlets as BBC World, BBC Europe, BBC World Today, BBC Wales, BBC Look East, Radio Svoboda, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Washington Post, The Times, The Moscow Times, The Kyiv Post, BBC Russian, BBC Ukrainian, and The Day (Ukraine).

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