Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Oct 1, 2024 | publicseminar.org | George Pattison |Inessa Medzhibovskaya |Anastasia Shteinert |Katherine Kelaidis

Statue of a Young Dostoevsky | Photographed by Kandukuru Nagarjun / CC BY 2.0Nine months after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech in which he argued that although Western leaders always claim to be the champions of freedom, Western liberalism was now engaged in the complete suppression of anything that contradicted its view of what was socially and culturally desirable.

Sep 30, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Timothy Snyder |Ihar Babkou |Kateryna Botanova |Inessa Medzhibovskaya

Volodymyr Zelensky (2024) | Public DomainThis lecture was delivered as part of a benefit conference for the Ukrainian academy that Aaron James Wendland organized in March 2023 at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Mar 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Inessa Medzhibovskaya |Heather Richardson |Ihar Babkou |Kateryna Botanova

Alexei Navalny at a demonstration in Moscow on Russia’s Unity Day (2011) | Rosfoto.ru / ShutterstockThe villainous, cowardly assassination of Alexei Navalny in Putin’s Russia must shake everyone for whom the political future of the world matters. The murder occurred on the eve of the dictator’s predictable “reelection.” Many were shocked that Navalny exchanged the safety of an honorable retirement abroad for an inevitable arrest, and, ultimately, murder at home.