Award-winning journalist Natalia Antelava will explain how the collective West has played an important and largely underreported part in enabling narratives that fuel the current bloodshed in Ukraine.
Date
October 4, 2023
Time
7:00—8:30 PM PT
Location
Los Altos Library, 13 S San Antonio Rd, Los Altos, CA 94022
Hosted by
World Affairs Peninsula Chapter
Category
Speaker:
Natalia Antelava is a 2023-2024 John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University. She is an award-winning journalist, former BBC correspondent and co-founder of Coda Story, a news outlet that reports on roots of global crises. Originally from Georgia, she has reported from frontlines all around the world, including Ukraine.
The world-changing war in Ukraine did not start in 2022. Nor did it start in 2014, when Moscow annexed Crimea. It began a decade and a half ago when Russia invaded Georgia and got away with it. The narratives that the Kremlin crafted during that war, and perfected throughout subsequent invasions and military operations, are today playing a subtle but crucial role in keeping Vladimir Putin in power despite Moscow’s disastrous battlefield performance. But it’s not just Russia. The collective West has played an important and largely underreported part in enabling narratives that fuel the current bloodshed in Ukraine. The West’s failure to recognize that role could still help Vladimir Putin win.
Doors open: 6:30 PM PT
Program: 7:00 PM—8:30 PM PT
This program is free to attend, and pre-registration is not required. Seating capacity is limited to 100, so please arrive early to ensure a seat.