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Ronan Farrow to Present Peabody Award to 'Welcome to Chechnya'

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Welcome to Chechnya has won a coveted Peabody Award and famed author and journalist Ronan Farrow will present the award. The 2020 documentary from gay documentarian David France follows undercover activists as they secretly filmed and documented the brutal and ongoing purge of the LGBTQ+ community in the Chechen Republic.

The film showed how a modern underground railroad of dedicated queer activists extracts threatened folks from the republic which borders the Caspian Sea in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia.“The filmmakers trace the indefatigable efforts of activists who deliver rescued victims to safe houses and provide visa assistance for their refuge,” the Peabody Awards said in a statement announcing the win. “In the process, the.

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