A discussion with Ilya Yashin, Russian opposition activist and organizer of the posthumous publication
On February 27, 2015, the Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in view of the Moscow Kremlin. Two days prior, he had approached his friend Ilya Yashin to ask for his assistance on a sensitive investigation: tracking Russia's secret military involvement in Ukraine. After the murder of the former deputy prime minister, Yashin led a group of opposition activists and journalists to piece together Nemtsov's findings and publish the report in Russia and abroad.
How was the information compiled? What pressures did Yashin and his colleagues face when trying to bring the report to publication? And how do they hope the report will change the tide of Russian politics, and Putin's actions in Ukraine?
Please join CGI and the Free Russia Foundation for an inside look at the creation of "Putin. War" with Ilya Yashin. Following a May 28 English-language release at the Atlantic Council, this discussion will allow the audience to engage in an intimate discussion with the report's leading organizer through an open Q&A format.
This discussion is on the record and open to the public. A reception will follow.
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