With speakers Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

A session of the Focus on Russia Lecture Series co-chaired by Carol Saivetz and Elizabeth Wood

Andrei Soldatov is a Russian investigative journalist and Russian security services expert
Irina Borogan is a Russian investigative journalist

Together they are co-founders and editors of the Agentura.Ru website.  Their most recent book is The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.  Their other books include: The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of the KGB and The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries.

Their recent book The Compatriots will be signed and sold at the event.

Co-sponsors:  MIT Center for International Studies (CIS), MIT Security Studies Program (SSP), MISTI MIT-Russia

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