Please join the Eurasia Club at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for a talk by Ambassador George Krol who will analyze the politics of religion and national security in present-day Ukraine.

Retired U.S. diplomat George Krol spent most of his 36-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service working with and in the states that emerged from the former USSR, including as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia and ambassador to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Join Ambassador Krol in discussing changes in the aims and structure of U.S. foreign policy over the past year with special emphasis on Central Asia and Eurasia more broadly as well as how the U.S. is currently positioned vis-à-vis Russia, China and other state and non-state actors in the region.

Ambassador Krol currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. and is an Associate of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He lectures broadly on foreign policy topics and the states of the former USSR and Soviet world. He is a graduate of Harvard (A.B.) and Oxford (M.A.) universities.  Refreshments will be served. This in-person event is open to the public. Please register via the Google Form here.

Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET
Location: Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program Conference Room
Address: 114 Curtis St, Somerville, MA 02144