Next Wednesday at the old place: the Bosch Academy, a blessed haven of my first year in Germany, is hosting a discussion on "Contesting Understandings of Democracy". Democratisation and the lack thereof, the authoritarian renessance (or the illusion thereof), values universal or exclusive - all the hot stuff.
I am a proud speaker at the debate, together with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Senior Advisor, Bertelsmann Stiftung, and Kwasi Prempeh, Executive director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow (as I was in 2022). Moderated by Pradnya Bivalkar, known to our readers as a incomparable co-achor of Unboxing Russia, that most informative of Russia-related podcasts.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО]
🕕 25th September at 6 PM at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Französische Strasse 32, 10117 Berlin
Next Wednesday at the old place: the Bosch Academy, a blessed haven of my first year in Germany, is hosting a discussion on "Contesting Understandings of Democracy". Democratisation and the lack thereof, the authoritarian renessance (or the illusion thereof), values universal or exclusive - all the hot stuff.
I am a proud speaker at the debate, together with Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, Senior Advisor, Bertelsmann Stiftung, and Kwasi Prempeh, Executive director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development and Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow (as I was in 2022). Moderated by Pradnya Bivalkar, known to our readers as a incomparable co-achor of Unboxing Russia, that most informative of Russia-related podcasts.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО]
🕕 25th September at 6 PM at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Französische Strasse 32, 10117 Berlin
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