Or less on time although we are starting a little bit late. So i just want to introduce our panelists and then we will get started. I think we will go in the order listed in your program. So, this panel is on radio and national heritage. And we are going to hear first from jane gilvin and ayda pourasad, of npr who will talk about how they created the npr Historical Archives. Ayda pourasad good morning, everybody. This is jane, my colleague. We are from the Research Archive and Data Strategy team at the National Public radio. We are known as rad. In our company. Several of our colleagues are also in attendance in the conference, so please make sure to go and introduce ourselves to them and say hi to them. Our chief officer sitting in the front will also be presenting at tomorrow at the Plenary Session so please make sure you attend , her talk as well. We are here to tell you about how we created nprs Historical Archive in 2013 from scratch while we were during the move to a new building
This is the launch of the Wikileaks Files i am the director and we have been working on this project with Julian Assange and wikileak for about four years and this is a culmination of a collaborative editorial and political work that were very proud of them thrilled to publish this in cooperation with Julian Assange and wikileaks you should all get a copy if he didnt get one under way and then get one on your way out. In it there is an amazing roundtable discussion of what we can really learn from this huge, huge diplomatic issue and from the u. S. Umpire and foreign policy. Im extremely proud to introduce jeremy who will lead the conversation with Julian Assange. I am sure you know, he has agreed to most of our time the author of blackwater and of the film dirty wars. [cheers and applause] and i should add it to carry on the grey work of wikileaks from Edward Snowden. It is great to be here progress live to this neighborhood never imagined i would beat on the stage they ask me if i wa
Grandfather and your mother. Your mother while your grandfather was in the whitehouse, would occasionally perform publically and on one particular occasion she is an incredible vocalist to clarify. I am sorry. Right. Thank you, margaret. He was in key west. She was saying a review was written that your grandfather didnt like. That is right. She was singing at constitutional hall in the 1950s and the review was written by paul hume of the washington post. He said unkind things about my mothers singing ability. Quite a few things. My grandfather read that the next morning. The korean war i dont know if it had started and that would be dramatic his press secretary, charlie ross died the morning of the concert of a massive heart attack. Grandpa wasnt in a good review. He comes this review and he sat down and wrote out a review of a page and half and wrote out unkind things. The end of the letter said i would like to meet you in person and when i do you will need steak for black eyes and yo
The sanctions worked. The really tough sanctions forced the the iranians to the table. Russia didnt agree to them. Another area where we dont entirely agree, to put it mildly, is ukraine. You talk about russian attitude to ukraine. You could not write in your book about what is happening right now in kiev, but recent by president yanukovych to moscow, his agreement with president putin. We talk about that . Yes. So the leadership of the ukraine, after the orange revolution, i describe it in my book their russians were disconcert by this, we were hopeful and didnt work out the way the west hoped it would. The leadership under you sharon can they were arguing all the time and you had a relatively free and Fair Election in 2010. Mr. Yanukovych came to power, and the European Union was trying to entice him through this eastern partnership, to sign a deep sea trade agreement, an association agreement, which does not mean membership but it should a tailor the more towards european norm. The
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