Dancing on Thin Ice
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Correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Prague, 2002.
Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) is a Russian Jewish dissident and former journalist who has authored articles, essays, and satires for leading Russian periodicals, as well as two books about Africa. For many years in the USSR and later in the West, he was heavily involved in human rights, including as a testimonial speaker for Amnesty International and working on behalf of 30,000 Russian Evangelicals trying to escape decades of persecution under communist rule.
In 1981, Polishchuk was awarded the British McWhirter Human Rights Foundation Award. His activities were covered by Life, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Nightline with Ted Koppel, the 700 Club, and many international publications. From 1985–2008, Polishchuk was a broadcaster and correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty based in Washington, D.C.; Munich; and Prague. His writings have appeared in the National Review, Chicago Tribune, and Witness, as well as several international publications.
Polishchuk holds an advanced degree in Philosophy from Moscow University.
Acknowledgments
I am thankful to my dear and patient friends Alex Cooke and the late Eugene Ostrovsky for their valiant efforts to edit my crimes against English grammar.