[Daviscalendar-list] US-Russian Relations Seminar today at BU

*The Institute for Human Sciences at **Boston** **University** cordially invites you to the following events:* * * *Monday, September 11, 2006**, **6:00 PM*** * * *US-Russian Relations in the New Global Context* * * *Panel Discussion with:* * * *Andrew Kuchins* /Senior Associate and Director, Russian and Eurasian Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/ *Lilia Shevtsova* /Senior Associate, //Carnegie// //Moscow// //Center//, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/ / / Colloquium Room Boston University Photonics Center 8 Saint Mary's Street, 9^th Floor (St. Mary's Street stop on MBTA "C" line; BU Central stop on MBTA "B" line) *Reception to Follow* / / /Participant Bios:/ / / /Andy Kuchins/ is the Director of the Russian & Eurasian Program and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Previously, Kuchins was Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He conducts research and writes widely on Russian foreign and security policy and is working on a book entitled //China//// and ////Russia////: Strategic Partners, Allies or Competitors?// He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. //Lilia Shevtsova// co-chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Endowment, she was deputy director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the Center of Political Studies in Moscow. She is one of Russia's top political analysts, an award-winning journalist, and a regular media commentator. She is also the author of six books, including //Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality// (Carnegie Endowment, 1999) and //Putin's//// Russia //(Carnegie Endowment, 2003).*//* * * Institute for Human Sciences Boston University 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-358-2778 Fax: 617-358-3584 ihs(a)bu.edu http://www.bu.edu/ihs