Dispatches from Crimea: webinar with Nataliya Gumenyuk
Date and time:
Wednesday 15 April, 2020
19:00 - 20:00
Location:
“March 2014. Green uniforms on the ground. A so-called referendum. Joy and panic on the streets. Fear twitching behind the net curtains. Hopes, disappointments. Dreams and reality.”
Nataliya Gumenyuk is one of the few journalists who has regularly travelled to Crimea since Russia annexed it in March 2014. Her new book, “Lost Island: Dispatches from Occupied Crimea” (Загублений острів. Книга репортажів з окупованого Криму) tracks the stories of the people who lived through the drama. It tells the human stories of how life in Crimea has transformed. The e-book is available in Ukrainian and in Russian.
Join us to hear about the implications of annexation from Nataliya in conversation with British journalist Oliver Carroll, Moscow correspondent for The Independent and the Evening Standard.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Nataliya Gumenyuk
Nataliya Gumenyuk is a prominent Ukrainian journalist specialising in foreign affairs and conflict reporting. From 2013-2020 Gumenyuk was a special correspondent and from 2015-2019 she headed the independent broadcaster Hromadske TV. Anchoring Hromadske’s agenda-setting news review programme Gumenyuk first made her mark as a foreign correspondent, reporting on major political events from nearly 50 countries. She was able to put this experience to good use when Ukraine came onto the international news agenda. Nataliya is the author of the book "Maidan Tahrir. In Search Of The Lost Revolution” – a collection of reportage from the Middle East researching what happens to societies after the revolution. Millions tuned in to watch her coverage of the Euromaidan revolution and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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