Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The conversation will focus on growing repression in Russia since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. We encourage you to read their recent article on “Putin’s New Police State,” in which they discuss how the Russian security services clamp down on civil society and stifle internal dissent. The event will be chaired by Professor Chris Miller and is open to the public. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event in person. Refreshments will be served.

Speakers:

Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and deputy editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. She chronicled the Kremlin's campaign to gain control of civil society and strengthen the government's police services under the pretext of fighting extremism. She is co-author with Andrei Soldatov of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015), and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (2019).

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist, co-founder, and editor of Agentura.ru, a watchdog of the Russian secret services’ activities. He has been covering security services and terrorism issues since 1999. He is co-author with Irina Borogan of The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia’s Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB (2010), The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015), and The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad (2019).