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).

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