27
April 2016
Past Event
"Who Is Mr. Putin?"

"Who Is Mr. Putin?"

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
April 27, 2016
27
April 2016
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
David Satter

Former Senior Fellow

Karen Dawisha

Professor, Miami University; Director, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies; and Author, Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

Anastasia Kirilenko

Journalist and Co-Producer, Who Is Mr. Putin?

Ilya Zaslavskiy

Academy Associate, Chatham House

__Hudson Institute and the Kleptocracy Initiative would like to give special thanks to Valery Balayan, director of the film, for permission to screen Who Is Mr. Putin? at Hudson on April 27, 2016.__

Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative hosted the first U.S. screening and English-language premiere of the film Who Is Mr. Putin? Based on investigations by independent journalists Anastasia Kirilenko and Vladimir Ivanidze, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power.

The film has been lauded by experts for demonstrating how Putin's ascension to the Russian presidency is explained by an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad's KGB, and mafia groups. Who Is Mr. Putin? was released in December 2015 and has already been viewed by more than 2 million Russian-speakers worldwide.

The screening was followed by a short panel discussion, moderated by Hudson Senior Fellow David Satter, featuring Anastasia Kirilenko, Karen Dawisha, and Ilya Zaslavskiy.

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