Yeltsin and the Press
May 18, 2018, 10:00-11:30am (Registration Requested)
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC
Join the Wilson Center's Kennan Institute for a discussion of freedom of press in Russia during the 1990s. RSVP here.
The 1990’s are viewed as one of the most independent times for the Russian press. How did the press freedoms brought by Gorbachev begin to decline, and what can we learn from that process? Nataliya Rostova, creator of GorbyMedia, will discuss her work creating YeltsinMedia to help answer these questions.
Speakers:
Nataliya Rostova, George F. Kennan Expert, Senior Correspondent, Republic.ru
Sergey Parkhomenko, George F. Kennan Expert, Journalist, "Echo of Moscow" Radio; Former Editor-in-Chief, Itogi, Vokrug Sveta
Sarah Oates, Professor and Senior Scholar, University of Maryland
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