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26/06/2017
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When:
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Monday 26 June
18:00
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EBRD HQ
One Exchange Square
London EC2A 2JN
United Kingdom
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Contact:
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The BEARR Trust
info@bearr.org
+44 (0)20 7922 7849
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The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2017
“Russia: The Power of a Narrative”
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EBRD Alumni were invited to this year’s BEARR Trust Annual Lecture, which was hosted at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN, 18:00 on 26 June 2017 (for map of location and accessibility information click here). The BEARR Trust is a UK-based organisation set up to help children and other vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. The BEARR Trust helps small NGOs working in health and social welfare to build know-how, skills and contacts.
The speaker at the Annual Lecture was Arkady Ostrovsky, and the theme will be “Russia: The Power of a Narrative”.
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Arkady Ostrovsky is Russia and Eastern European Editor of The Economist. A Russian-born, British journalist, he spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as a bureau chief for The Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University. His book “The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War” (Atlantic Books) won the Orwell Prize for Literature in 2016.
The lecture was followed by a reception, which will allow for further discussion and networking with others with an interest in the field.
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