This distinguished panel today on a really important set of laws and facts in russia that unfortunately we havent heard much about in the american or western media. The Atlantic Council patience has been very if gauged to highlight the increasingly repressive regime under putin and russia going from the corner of the civic space, the media space and increasing pressure on human rights under putin. Today we hosted approximately 20 events to highlight these issues on russia. The Atlantic Council worked closely with what is considered the emerging or consistent russian opposition in russia tod today. We are really proud of this work and this is part of highlighting some of these works and trends first of all societies, religious groups, and Internet Freedom in russia. So i would like to introduce our panel. The senior director for russia and eurasia is to my left. He has a ph. D from Boston University and developed a Civil Society state for many years and thank you for being here. Next to
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
Calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan will. Monday night, a Funeral Service for the late Washington Post editor ben bradlee. Speakers include popular word bob woodward. On september 23, 1972, about 9 00 p. M. , i reached john mitchell, president nixons former attorney, about a story we were running. He said he had controlled a secret fund for undercover operations of such as watergate. Mitchell was quite upset. Responding jesus several times as i read in the story. He then proceeded to let me in on important, private parts of Katharine Grahams anatomy which he said would get caught in a big fat ringer is the post printed the story. He also said we are going to do a story on all of you and hung up the phone. I called been at home ben at home. We did not much observe the chain of command. Ben interrogated me had he been drinking . I couldnt tell. Did i properly identify myself . Yes. Did i have good n
Weapons to russia, the signatories, i quote, reaffirm their commitment to ukraines independence on sovereignty and existing borders. Refrain from the threat of use of force against territorial integrity or political independence of ukraine. And from economic coercion to subordinate to their interests the exercise by ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty. Thats a pretty comprehensive list, congratulations, but, but things have changed and where do you think the change has come from and why . Well, first of all, leon, its great to be here with you. Its great to be back at aei with so many friends. Thank you for coming out. And it is truly interesting to think back that it was 20 years ago that we met and at that point we had so much hope about being able to knit a reforming democratizing russia into the International System that we could lift all boats including the lives of 150 million russian people. It is true that one of the first major pieces of negotiation that i every