Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Hitachi Center for Technology and International Affairs at The Fletcher School for a conversation with Russian investigative journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan. The conversation will focus on Internet surveillance and censorship in Russia. We encourage you to read their recent article on “The New Iron Curtain,” published in the Center for European Policy Analysis, in which they discuss why the Russian authorities have increased pressure on independent media, journalists, and social media platforms since the invasion of Ukraine began.

The event will be chaired by Professor Josephine Wolff, whose students from the Cyber in the Civilian Sector course will be in attendance. The event is restricted to members of the Fletcher community. 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).