Yevgenia Albats: Putin's Silent Coup

20174:30-6:00PM, World Forum
Followed by a reception in the student lounge, 6:00 - 6:45PM

Yevgenia Albats is editor-in-chief of the Russian political weekly the New Times. She is also an anchor with the Echo Moskva broadcasting and a recipient of several journalism awards worldwide. She received the Golden Pen Award in 1989, the highest journalism honor in the then-Soviet Union. She was an Alfred Friendly fellow in 1990 and a fellow of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 1993. Albats is the author of four books, including The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia. Past, Present and Future. Albats has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. She has lectured at many universities in the U.S. and Europe, including Yale University and Oxford University. She is a permanent professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.