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Waclaw Radziwinowicz on Russia

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: October 10, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Meeting with Waclav Radziwinowicz, a Polish journalist with the daily Gazeta Wyborcza who is a leading Polish expert on Russia and whose articles represent a significant strand of Polish opinion on Moscow. He also serves as a Poland-based correspondent for the radio station Echo of Moscow.

Debate on the Polish perspective on contemporary Russia politics chaired by Petr Janyška, a diplomat and director of the Czech Centre in Poland. 

Waclav Radziwinowicz

Born 1953 in Olsztyn (northern Poland). 1997–2015 Gazeta Wyborcza correspondent in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. In December 2015 expelled from Russia in reaction to the extradition of a correspondent of Russian RIA Novosti agency charged by Polish authorities with “activities incompatible with the status of journalist”. The author of several popular books on Russia: Gogol w czasach Google’a (Gogol in the Age of Google, 2013, nominated for the prestigious Nike Polish literary prize, winner of the Radio Zet Prize competition), Soczi. Igrzyska Putina (Sochi: Putin’s Games, 2014, Dariusz Fikus Prize) and Crème de la Kreml (Crème de la Kremlin, 2016). 

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