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| The Writer’s Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya & Russia’s Forgotten War |
 When: Wednesday, December 6
Where: Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center: 365 Fifth Ave., NYC
What time: 7 p.m.
Event info: This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (212) 334-1660, ext. 107.
PEN American Center, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, CUNY, present an evening of readings from Anna Politkovskaya's work and a conversation about the costs of an ongoing but forgotten war with:
On October 7, 2006, renowned Russian journalist and author Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in a contract killing in the elevator of her apartment building. On the day of her murder, she was completing an article on torture in Chechnya, the latest in her seven-year effort to chronicle and expose the human rights abuses and horrors of Russia’s “War on Terrorism” in that region. Her killing—the 13th contract-style assassination of a journalist in Russia since Vladimir Putin became President in 2000—shocked the world and deepened doubts about the direction of democracy in Russia.
Free admission.
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