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Constanța Dohotaru from Moldova is a co-founder and program coordinator in the NGO LAOLALTĂ (“Together”). Being a feminist activist and urban planner, she talks about people and the city in the podcast/vlog “Omul face locul” (“We shape the space”). Having completed BA and MA studies at Politecnica Timișoara and Scuola Politecnica di Palermo as an architect and urban planner, she decided to dedicate herself to community work, participatory placemaking, and creative feminist protests/interventions in public spaces.

Moldovian city planner Constanța Dohotaru: Our cities are patriarchy cut in stone!

Constanța Dohotaru about rampant Russian propaganda in Moldova, the situation of women, minorities and refugees, and urban planning, which is heavily biased towards the needs of men.

Gulya Sultanova, Manny de Guerre ja Banger. Foto: erakogu ja Hille Hanso

Organisers of LGBTQ+ film festival in Russia: “We were a little naïve about the backlash that was going to happen!”

Estonian Rainbow Heroes of Culture, Gulya Sultanova and Manny de Guerre, who ran the LGBTQ+ film festival Side by Side in Russia, compare working in an atmosphere of bomb threats, intimidation and self-censorship to working to promote human rights in Russia in Estonia, where they run Q-Space, LGBTQ+ cultural program mainly aimed at the Russian-speaking community.