Description:

Please join Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) and the Medill, School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications as they host Maria Lipman for this workshop seminar.

Despite tremendous loss of Russian lives and the ongoing economic decline, there’s no sign of active discontent.  President Putin’s approval rating remains sky-high, and a majority of Russians say the country is on the right track. Disloyalty to the government is not tolerated in Russia, but fear of repressions is not the only reason for the public acquiescence. Skilled propaganda tapping into existing perceptions is another explanation. But no less important is the routinization Wartime of the war. 

About the speaker:

Maria Lipman is Chief Editor of Russia.Post, a publication of George Washington University's Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES). In addition to more than two decades of experience as an editor and deputy editor at various Russian-language publications, Lipman has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Carnegie Moscow Center's Pro et Contra journal, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a blog contributor for the New Yorker. Her areas of expertise include state-society relations, media, and politics of history in Russia and writes capsule reviews of books about Russia and Eastern Europe for the Foreign Affairs. 

From 1995 until 2019 Lipman was the Editor or Deputy editor of various Russian-language publications; from 2003 till 2014 she was also an associate at the Moscow Carnegie Center  (Russian branch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) where she published Pro et Contra journal. 

Most recently she was the Editor of the English-language Point & Counterpoint, published online by IERES, and produced a PONARS Eurasia podcast also under the IERES auspices https://blubrry.com/ponars/archive. 

 
Light refreshments will be served.