RUSSIA’S DEMOCRATS ABROAD AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR UKRAINE
25 June 2022 14:00 - 16:00
Virtual Event | Organised by AMERICAN RUSSIAN-SPEAKING ASSOCIATION FOR CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS (ARA) | Held in New York (EST) in The introductory remarks will be in English; most of the participants will speak in Russian or Ukrainian.Defending against authoritarianism
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RUSSIA’S DEMOCRATS ABROAD AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR UKRAINE
A dialogue between Russian diaspora’s antiwar organizers and Ukrainian human rights defenders
We invite you to another international zoom forum of our Ukrainian- and Russian-American Antiwar Roundtable – on Saturday June 25, 2pm EST (New York time). It will be focused upon the state of the antiwar movement in the Russian diaspora based on its latest wave of protests against Putin’s invasion of Ukraine that were held by Russian expats in two dozen countries on June 12 (officially observed by the Kremlin as ‘the Russia Day’). Our goal is to amplify the voices of the organizers and participants of these rallies representing a new wave of up-and-coming activists, some of whom have been forced out of their native country and have to combine their activism with integration in their new societies. We will also hear from Ukraine’s prominent human rights defenders about the Ukrainians’ views of the Russian protest and protesters against the invasion and of their value as an asset in the struggle for the liberation of Ukraine and for rebuilding the relations between our two peoples in the post-Putin future.
Presenters
Confirmed speakers:
1. Organizers of the June 12 rallies:
– Alla Ebel (Prague); – Peter Nikitin (Belgrade); – Olga Babina (Montreal); – Lada Kovalkova (Los Angeles)
2. Ukrainian human rights defenders: –
– Evgen Zaharov (Kharkiv), Board Chair of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and Board Member of the International Memorial Society
– Iosif Zissels, Executive Vice Chair of Ukraine’s Congress of Ethnic Communities
Co-chairs of the Roundtable – Liubov Stasiv, former Ukrainian MP (member of the Verkhovna Rada, 2006-07) and Dmitri Glinski, former member of Russia’s Constitutional Consultative Assembly under President Yeltsin, 1993
The introductory remarks will be in English; most of the participants will speak in Russian or Ukrainian.