Meet the | Speakers

Vitaly Kozyrev

Associate Professor, Endicott College; Senior Fellow, Davis Center For Russia and Eurasian Studies; Former Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies; Moscow State University

Robert Legvold

Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University

Artyom Lukin

Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Research School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok

Roman Lunkin

Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow

Yulia Marushevska

Ukrainian Graduate Student

Featured anonymously in the viral video “I Am A Ukrainian,” in which she explains the reasons behind the Euromaidan protests

Suzanne Massie

Author on US-Russia Relations

Author of Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me

Amb. Jack Matlock

Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1987-91); Author, Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Ben Moses

Co-Founder, Appleseed Entertainment; Filmmaker, “I Am a Ukrainian: Personal Stories of a Revolution”

Matthew Murray

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Mustafa Nayyem

Journalist; Member of Parliament, Ukraine; Recipient, 2014 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award