The Center for European and Russian Studies, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures and the Department of Political Science, invite you to a talk by Roman Badanin, Russian journalist-in-exile and the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt and Agentstvo. The talk will be followed by discussion with Professor Daniel Treisman, UCLA Political Science, about the state of the Russian media landscape under Putin and audience Q&A. This event will take place at the UCLA Hershey Salon on Tuesday, February 27th at 4pm.

About the Speaker

Roman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project) and Agentstvo (The Agency), media organizations that have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country. He started Agentstvo in the summer of 2021 after Russian authorities outlawed Proekt, the nonprofit investigative news organization he founded in 2018 during his 2018 JSK Fellowship that was modeled after the U.S. nonprofit investigative news outlet, ProPublica. It was Russia’s first nonprofit news organization. A current CDDRL-JSK Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Badanin has been working as a journalist in leading independent Russian news organizations for 20 years. He previously was deputy editor-in-chief at Gazeta.Ru, editor-in-chief at Forbes Digital (Russia), RBC News Agency, and editor-in-chief of Dozhd (TV Rain), an independent Russian TV channel. He has also been affiliated with the Gorbachev Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences as a researcher and studied history at Moscow State University.

Venue

Hershey Salon
(Hershey Hall Room 158)
801 Hilgard Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking

Parking at UCLA requires a valid permit at all times. Campus parking is available 24-hours a day at varying prices. Parking Structure 2 is closest to the event venue. Visit UCLA Visitor Parking for information about where to park and how to pay.

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, Department of Political Science