(Event) Albats will discuss what it is like to publish a leading independent weekly journal in contemporary Russia and she will discuss the role of the Internet and social media. Albats is a professor of political science at the National Research University at the Higher School of Economics and hosts a radio show at Echo Moskvy. She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She wrote, “The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia” (NY: Farrar , Straus & Giroux, 1994).
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 5:00-6:30pm Alumni House, 1918 F Street
Please RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/Albats
This event is on the record
Yevgenia M. Albats, Editor-in-Chief of Novoye Vremya
Part of IERES’ Behind the Headlines Series
The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Tel 202-994-6340 • Fax 202-994-5436
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