POLIS panel debate
Date: Monday 8 October 2007
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speakers: Miklos Haraszti, Edward Lucas, Pavel Andreev, Darya Pushkova
Chair: Professor Margot Light
Who is to blame for the current state of the Russian media? Can press freedom be revived?
Miklos Haraszti is the representative on freedom of the media at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Edward Lucas is East European correspondent at The Economist and author of The New Cold War and How to Win It, to be published in 2008. Pavel Andreev is London deputy bureau chief, Russian News & Information Agency. Darya Pushkova is a correspondent from Russia Today.
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The next public event organised by POLIS will be on Monday 22 October and is entitled Zimbabwe Revealed.