A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series

Co-chairs, Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood

Speakers:
Julia Ioffe, Moscow born American journalist who covers national security and foreign policy topics for The Atlantic

Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, Russian chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist. Kasparov’s books Winter is coming and Deep Thinking will be signed and sold at the event

Co-sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies, MIT Security Studies Program, and the MIT-Russia Program