Ukraine's Political and Military Battleground: The Shaping of a Modern Nation
A talk and book signing by Adrian Karatnycky
Thursday, March 6, 2025
7:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium, Goergen Hall, UR River Campus
Adrian Karatnycky is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where he is co-director of its Ukraine in Europe program. He concurrently serves as c- director and Board member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. For over a decade, he served as president of Freedom House, a US-headquartered international NGO focused on the advancement and monitoring of democracy. There he directed the annual landmark Survey of Freedom in the World. In the 1980s, As an official with the AFL-CIO, Karatnycky coordinated assistance to Poland's Solidarity and other free trade unions movements in the Communist bloc. He is author and co-author of four books and the editor of over twenty volumes. and has contributed hundreds of articles to the NY Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, Politico, the Financial Times, National Review, Die Welt, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy, where he is a regular contributor.
Sponsored by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, the Russian Studies Program, and Ukrainian American Community Foundation at Ukrainian FCU.
Free and open to the public. Parking on designated University lots is free after 7 p.m.