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Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

Thu. January 16th, 2020
Washington, DC

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Drawing from his new book, Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia, Joshua Yaffa, the Moscow correspondent for the New Yorker, will offer an engaging perspective on the life of Russians facing agonizingly difficult moral and personal choices. 

Please join the Carnegie Endowment and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser for a conversation about the lessons of life under modern authoritarianism. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signature at the event.

Joshua Yaffa

Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for the New Yorker in Moscow. For his work in Russia, he has been named a fellow at New America, a recipient of the American Academy’s Berlin Prize and a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and a finalist for the Livingston Award.

Susan Glasser

Susan Glasser is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Trump’s Washington. Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications, including Politico Magazine, Politico, and Foreign Policy. She is the co-author of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of the Revolution.

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Joshua Yaffa

Susan Glasser

Susan Glasser is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes a weekly column on life in Trump’s Washington. Glasser, with her husband Peter Baker, is the author of Kremlin Rising, about Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and most recently The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III.