Dear colleagues!
The Centre for russian Studies, with organisational support of the State Enterprise ‘Directorate-General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions’ invites you to participate in a roundtable discussion on the following subject entitled ‘Good russians’ — Who Are They? (The Phenomenon of ‘Good russians’ in the Hybrid War of muscovy Against Ukraine and the West). The roundtable will be held on 19 December 2024, 11:00 am, at the GDIP Media Center: Kyiv, 6-A Pyrohova St. The event will be held online and offline.
Event moderator: Volodymyr OHRYZKO, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007–9), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Head of the Centre for russian Studies.
The event will feature the following speakers:
- Oleh DUNDA, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament;
- Svitlana YEREMENKO, Director of the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy;
- Aider MUZHDABAEV, journalist, analyst, and Deputy Director-General of ATR TV Channel;
- Vitalii PORTNYKOV, publicist (online);
- Nataliia STEBLYNA, analyst at the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy and co-author of Deconstructors of Truth;
- Roman TSYMBALIUK, journalist.
The agenda of the discussion will consist of the following questions:
- Does a liberal-democratic opposition exist in muscovy;
- ‘Russian liberals’ — portraits of the ‘heroes’;
- ‘Russian liberalism’ as an extension of muscovite imperialism: Whose Crimea, and why is ‘not everything so clear-cut’;
- Information outlets of ‘russian liberalism’;
- The collective West and ‘russian liberalism’ — how long can blindness and deafness persist;
- ‘What is to be done?’ (not according to Chernyshevsky).
Event language: Ukrainian with simultaneous interpretation into English.
For registration and additional inquiries, please contact GDIP Media Center representative Yelyzaveta Spivak. E-mail: prepress.gdip@gmail.com; tel.: +38(067) 665 73 00.
Registration will remain open until 18 December 2024.
Should you be arriving in your own vehicle, please contact us at +38 (067) 215-16-09 (to have the barrier raised).
Join us!
