The event will take place at Actors Church – St Paul’s Church Covent Garden, Bedford St, London WC2E 9ED.
If you wish to meet Ekaterina Schulman, there are still tickets available for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 Dinner where she will announce the winner.
The Russian war in Ukraine is the greatest European political crisis in decades. The military gamble of the Russian authorities is destroying the lives and livelihoods of people in Ukraine and Russia, and is affecting the global economy. Politicians all over the world are looking for appropriate measures to counter the Russian imperialist aggression and to support the Ukrainian people in their fight for national sovereignty. Is there any hope that the war will end any time soon? What should the citizens of the global West be focusing on? Are there any optimistic scenarios?
Join us for an evening with leading Russian anti-war public intellectual Ekaterina Schulmann. A member of the jury and the spokesperson for the 10th Pushkin House Book Prize, she is one of Russia’s foremost political scientists. The conversation will be moderated by Grigor Atanesian, a journalist with BBC News Russian. In-person and online event.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Ekaterina Schulmann currently resides in Berlin as a fellow in the Robert Bosch Academy, and specialises in the legislative process in modern Russia, parliamentarism and decision-making mechanisms in hybrid political regimes. Until April 2022 she was a senior lecturer at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). From Dec 2018 to Oct 2019 she was a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. She serves as an associate professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES), is the author of the books Legislation as a Political Process and Practical Politology: a guide to the contact with reality (collection of articles), and one of the co-authors of the The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin’s Russia (Brookings Institution Press 2018). She has published extensively for leading institutions like the Moscow Carnegie Centre and had a long-running show on the now-banned Echo Moskvy radio station, which has been continued on her Youtube channel that has a large subscriber audience. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the UNESCO Courier magazine.
Grigor Atanesian is a journalist with BBC World Service and a former Esquire Russia editor. He received his MA from the University of Missouri School of Journalism via a Fulbright grant.