From: ZvanersM@rferl.org
Subject: REMINDER: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West [Feb. 20 RFE/RL event in Washington]
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008
A reminder... For those of you who have already responded, thank you. For those who have not, please let us know if you will be able to attend this briefing, 1) by sending an email to <dc-response@rferl.org>, 2) by calling (202) 457-6949, or 3) by sending a fax to (202) 457-6992.
Regards,
Martins Zvaners, Associate Director of Communications
RFE/RL, Inc.
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
invites you to a briefing by
Edward Lucas
Deputy Editor, International Section and Central and Eastern Europe
Correspondent, The Economist
Moderated by
David K. Shipler
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Former Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
in Conference Room A (4th Floor) at
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
1201 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC
[entrance on Rhode Island Ave NW, next to St. Matthew's Cathedral]
Edward Lucas, former Moscow Bureau Chief for The Economist and author of "The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West" (Palgrave MacMillan), offers a sobering political assessment of what a new Cold War will mean for the world. Lucas argues that the structures built during Putin's rise to power have created a new threat to the West which needs to be confronted earlier than later.
Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. He has been covering the region for more than 20 years, witnessing the final years of the last Cold War, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of the Soviet empire, Boris Yeltsin's downfall and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. From 1992 to 1994, he was the managing editor of The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn.
Please RSVP by email to <dc-response@rferl.org>, by telephone to Melody Jones at (202) 457-6949, or by fax to (202) 457-6992.
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