Приглашенные лица:
Akhmed Zakaev
Prime Minister-in-Exile of the Unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
David Satter
Associate Fellow at The Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society
13.00 – 14.00, в четверг 5 Февраля 2015
По адресу Committee Room 2, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
Для принятия участия просьба зарегистрироваться: researchassistant3@henryjacksonsociety.org
После распада Советского Союза ни одна страна не оказала влияния на Россию, так, как это сделала Чечня. Если Первая Российско-Чеченская война (1994-96) стала кульминацией стратегии так называемой «децентрализации» президента Бориса Ельцина, то Вторая Российско-Чеченская война (1999-201?) стала трамплином для Владимира Путина, приведшего его к власти. Ввергнув в очередную кровавую пучину Чечню, Путин вступил в должность в Кремле; они предоставили предлог для строительства «вертикали власти». В рамках этого Россия «инвестировала» миллиарды рублей в оккупированную Республику и установила у власти своего главу российских оккупантов.
SPEAKERS:
Akhmed Zakaev
Prime Minister-in-Exile of the Unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
David Satter
Associate Fellow at The Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society
TIME: 1 – 2pm, Thursday 5th February 2015
VENUE: Committee Room 2, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, no state has influenced Russia quite the same as Chechnya. If the first Russia-Chechen War (1994-96) was the culmination of President Boris Yeltsin’s «decentralisation strategy», then the second Russia-Chechen War (1999-2002) set the stage for Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. Instabilities in Chechnya have guided Russia since Putin took office in the Kremlin; they provided a pretext for the construction of a ‘power vertical’. As part of this, Russia has «ploughed billions» of roubles into the restive republic and installed in power a local warlord.
By kind invitation of Lord Judd, The Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society is pleased to invite you to a discussion with Akhmed Zakaev, Prime Minister-in-Exile of the unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria; and David Satter, Visiting Fellow at The Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society. Mr Zakaev will discuss the two Chechen wars and explain how Chechnya was important to President Putin’s rise to power. Mr Satter will build on Mr Zakaev’s comments, explaining how events in Chechnya have shaped developments in Russia
Biographies
Akhmed Zakaev is Prime Minister-in-Exile of the unrecognised Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Born into a family deported by Joseph Stalin, along with the rest of the Chechen population, in 1944, Zakaev trained as an actor and in 1994 became Chechnya’s Minister of Culture. At the outset of the first Chechen war (1994-6), Zakaev took up arms, later becoming Secretary of the Chechen Security Council and representing Chechnya at the Khasavyurt peace talks with Russia, which brought a peaceful end to the war.
In the inter-war period (1996-9), Zakaev served as Chechnya’s Deputy Prime Minister. During Russia’s assault on Grozny, the Chechen capital, in the early phases of the second Chechen war (1999-2002), Zakaev was injured, subsequently leaving Chechnya for medical treatment and remaining abroad as President Aslan Maskhadov’s representative in Western Europe. In 2002, Russia accused him, by then in-exile in Britain, of having been involved in a series of crimes, including the Moscow theatre siege (October 2002) in which 130 people died. In 2003, a British court rejected a Russian extradition request, declaring the accusations to be politically motivated; the same year, Zakaev was given political asylum in Britain.
Over the past decade, there have been a number of unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Zakaev in the UK and abroad, including by the Russian state. He lives in London.
David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, is associate fellow at The Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society and the author of numerous books and a prolific commentator on Russia and the former Soviet Union.
He has followed Russian events for almost four decades. In May, 2013, he became an adviser to Radio Liberty and in September, 2013, he was accredited as a Radio Liberty correspondent in Moscow. Three months later, he was expelled from Russia becoming the first U.S. correspondent to be expelled since the Cold War.
Satter is a fellow of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He has also been a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
His first book was Age of Delirium: the Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union, which was published in 1996. He made a documentary film on the basis of this book which won the 2013 Van Gogh Grand Jury Prize at the Amsterdam Film Festival. In addition to Age of Delirium, Satter has written two other books about Russia, Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003) and It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past (2011). His books have been translated into six languages.
About the Russia Studies Centre
The Russia Studies Centre is a research and advocacy unit operating within The Henry Jackson Society dedicated to analysing contemporary political developments and promoting human rights and political liberty in the Russian Federation. The Centre is headed by Dr. Andrew Foxall.