Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad
When:
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 4:30p -
6:00p
Thursday, Oct 24, 2019 4:30p -
6:00p
Where:
MIT E15-070 Bartos Theater
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
http://calendar.mit.edu/event/KremlinsGlobalOutreach
With speakers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood
Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert
Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist
Together they are co-founders and editors of the Agentura.Ru website. Their most recent book is The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. Their other books include: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries.
Their recent book The Compatriots will be signed and sold at the event.
Co-sponsors: MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Security Studies Program (SSP), MISTI MIT-Russia
Free & open to the public | Refreshments served
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