{"id":61328,"date":"2015-04-17T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61328"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:37:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T22:37:06","slug":"ukraine-conflict-in-the-spotlight-as-cazenovia-forum-hosts-top-foreign-affairs-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61328","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Conflict in the Spotlight as Cazenovia Forum Hosts Top Foreign Affairs Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Karatnycky\"<\/a>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 April 2015) The conflict in Ukraine will be the focus of the next Cazenovia Forum lecture and discussion, as one of America’s leading experts on the region presents an in-depth look at the Ukrainian government’s struggle with pro-Russian separatists and their backers in Moscow.<\/p>\n

The presentation by Adrian Karatnycky, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the U.S., will take place on\u00a0Friday May 1 at\u00a07 p.m.\u00a0in the Morgan Room of\u00a0Hubbard Hall at Cazenovia College. \u00a0Please\u00a0note this is a change from our usual venue. \u00a0The event is free of charge and will\u00a0be followed by a reception, at which audience members will have an opportunity to further engage the speaker.<\/p>\n

The topic of Karatnycky’s presentation will be\u00a0“The Conflict in Ukraine: Civil War or Russian Aggression?”<\/p>\n

The crisis in Ukraine began with anti-government demonstrations in November 2013 when pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych’s government abandoned a deal with the European Union in favor of stronger ties with Russia. \u00a0The street protests led to Yanukovich’s resignation and the formation of a new government, following which Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, a move largely condemned by the international community. \u00a0Since then, and despite a recent ceasefire agreement, fighting between Ukrainian government forces and Moscow-supported separatists has continued in the eastern part of the country, with more than 6,000 people dead and more than 1.5 million displaced.<\/p>\n

The co-author and editor of more than 20 books on East European and human rights topics,\u00a0Karatnycky is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top analysts on the situation in Ukraine. \u00a0His writings regularly appear\u00a0in\u00a0Foreign Affairs\u00a0magazine,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal,\u00a0Washington Post,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0and other periodicals. He also appears regularly on the\u00a0PBS Newshour\u00a0and on MSNBC’s\u00a0The Last Word\u00a0with Lawrence O’Donnell.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade he was president of Freedom House,\u00a0major pro-democracy and economic reform organization,\u00a0where he headed its widely-known\u00a0survey of\u00a0Freedom in the World\u00a0and developed and supervised the\u00a0Nations in Transit\u00a0survey that annually monitors the post-Communist transition. \u00a0He\u00a0had earlier served as Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO, where in the 1980s he was responsible for coordinating assistance to Poland’s Solidarity and other underground opposition movements of Central and Eastern Europe that were ultimately successful their efforts to break free from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Karatnycky has also served\u00a0as co-director of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on the US and the United Nations (2003-4), as co-director of the first World Forum on Democracy (2000), and was a member of the United Nations Blue Ribbon Commission on Ukraine (2005).<\/p>\n

More information can be found at\u00a0www.cazenoviaforum.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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