Industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Reading everybody. Welcome to politics and prose. Im bradley graham, a coowner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. While theres certainly been a lot of news this week, much of it of course about the start of Donald Trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly an announcement by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins on plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years. We are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Yorker. Hes been covering russia for much of the past decade, and his new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on, above all,
Only wrong on the bottom line on u. S. Politics and policies and their effect on the world. Could the rivalry between afghanistans leaders do rail peace efforts ashraf ghani and i. Both say they are the president with peace with the taliban on the line come they settle their differences this is inside story. Hello there im jane suppose many were hailing a new beginning for afghanistan less than a fortnight ago the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban had just signed a deal towards ending 2 decades of war but the Afghan Government wasnt part of the talks and a long standing political rivalry is making things even more complicated president ashraf ghani was narrowly declared the winner of the election in september for a 2nd term former chief executive abdullah i dont know rejects the result both held rival president ial inauguration ceremonies on monday after the u. S. Special envoy to afghanistan failed to resolve their dispute ghani is supposed to finalize the Governments Team for the 1st dire
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Is my honor to turn him to run this discussion about unknown air missions. [applause] thank you. As pete said, the title of this panel is unknown air missions. Some into this panel but they peaked in 1943 but we move to 1944s we have other debacles to talk about. Were going to look at operation enter horn and operation frantic, the first is sometimes bizarre and attempt to deploy between nine to the china burma india theater and the others and attempt to shuttle bond with the russians that did more to launch the cold war then to end world war ii. Theres a nasty pattern emerging here for the panels they want me to moderate. The last conference i got to sit and rickich Frank Atkinson who talked about the so i feel obligated to say today as i said then, that i want to remind everyone here we did eventually win the war. [laughter] we have to great presenters search date good friends of mine and trevor presenter. First is Tami Davis Biddle besides responsible for the most import parts of th