Subject: INVITATION: Briefing on the media in Russia and the Financial Crisis
From: RFERL_Communications <rferlcomms@rferl.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
and the
Georgetown University Center for Democracy and Civil Society
cordially invite you to a briefing on
Muzzled Media: Coverage in Russia of the Financial Crisis
April 30, 2009
9:30AM-11:00AM
RFE/RL - Washington
1201 Connecticut Ave NW, 4th Floor
[entrance on Rhode Island Ave NW, next to St. Matthew's Cathedral]
Panelists
Dmitry Sidorov
Washington Bureau Chief, Kommersant
contributor to Forbes.com
Daniel Kimmage
Independent Consultant
Andrei Sitov
Washington Bureau Chief, ITAR-TASS News Agency
Brian Whitmore
Senior Correspondent, RFE/RL, Inc.
Co-author, "The Power Vertical" blog
(via videoconference from Prague)
moderated by
David Satter
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Please RSVP by email to <dc-response@rferl.org>,
by telephone to (202) 828-7211, or by fax to (202) 457-6992.
In September 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told Le Figaro that the economic crisis was a European and American phenomenon, adding, “We do not have it and I hope won't have it.” Events soon proved him wrong. But with most of the country's media outlets tightly controlled, Russians had few sources of independent information about a crisis that soon began to affect their daily lives. What have the people of Russia been told by their media about the financial crisis? What does the lack of a free press mean for Russians as they confront declining living standards after years of relative prosperity? Will the Kremlin's model of muzzled media and managed democracy survive the crisis?
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