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Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002
From: "JOSEPH DRESEN" <DRESENJO@WWIC.SI.EDU>
Subject: Kennan Institute public events

The Kennan Institute is pleased to announce the following upcoming events for the month of April. All events are located in the 6th Floor Auditorium of the Woodrow Wilson Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC. For directions and security instructions, please visit the following page: (http://wwics.si.edu/FORTHCOM/septcal.htm)

Monday, April 8, 2002/ Noon Discussion (12 to 1 PM)
"Ten Years of Civil Society Development in Siberia 1992-2002: Lessons Learned by an American Activist"
Sarah Lindemann, Open Society Fellow, Novosibirsk

Thursday, April 11, 2002/ Seminar (3:30 to 5:30 pm)
"A Preliminary Evaluation of the Recent Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections"
James Clem, Executive Officer, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University; Gretchen Birkle, Deputy Program Director, Eurasia, International Republican Institute

Monday, April 15, 2002/ Noon Discussion (12 to 1 PM)
"Defining Nationhood: Politics of Ethnicity and Language in Post-Soviet Ukraine"
Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine

Monday, April 22, 2002/ Noon Discussion (12 to 1 PM)
"Progress and Resistance to Putin's Federal Reforms for Russia"
Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science, Union College

Monday, April 29, 2002/ Noon Discussion (12 to 1 PM) Kennan Institute U.S. Alumni Series "Resisting the State: Retrenchment and Reform in Post-Soviet Russia" Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute

Please direct questions to Joseph Dresen at 202-691-4245.