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• Mass Upheaval in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, War in Nagorno-Karabakh and Ukraine: Isolated Conflicts or an Emergent Pattern in Post-Soviet Space?

  • When
    Wednesday, October 28, 2020
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

  The UW-Madison Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) invites MCFR members to view this panel discussion.

  
  

  Mass protest movements have challenged election results in Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, provoking different responses from the incumbent regimes that declared themselves winners of the balloting. Full-scale combat has erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the area around the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. Meanwhile, fighting continues between Russia-backed secessionist forces and government troops in Eastern Ukraine. What are the main roots of these conflagrations and how are they unfolding? Should each be understood as distinct, or do they have enough common features to suggest a general pattern or new trend? What challenges or opportunities do they pose for Russia and for the United States? What do they teach us about politics and conflict in post-Soviet countries?
  
  This is a Zoom presentation.  To register, enter https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5StkhLlYSQiLhdqt4-6Iag
  

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• CHINA Town Hall

  • When
    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
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    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM (CST)
  • Location
    Virtual (Zoom webinar)

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  In the first in a series of China Town Hall programs, renowned investor, philanthropist and New York Times best-selling author Ray Dalio will speak on the forces that underpin the most important global issues of our time, and the critical roles of the United States and China in an era of monumental worldwide change.

  Mr. Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, has had a close relationship with China starting in 1985. His son Matthew attended an all-Chinese school in Beijing when he was 11 and set up the China Care Foundation to help Chinese orphans with special needs when he was 16. The Dalio family continues to support child welfare and education initiatives through the Beijing Dalio Foundation. Mr. Dalio also established, with Bill Gates and three Chinese philanthropists, the China Global Philanthropy Institute, which teaches Chinese philanthropists and policy-makers best practices in philanthropy.

  The China Town Hall programs on subsequent days will deal with economics and trade; climate and health; and society and culture.  Your registration for the November 10 program will give you entree to the subsequent China Town Hall programs as well. 

  
  

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