MH17 and PS752: how authoritarians manipulate the truth
Date and time:
Tuesday 14 January, 2020
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Ukraine happened to be at the centre of two horrific plane crashes making headlines: one of a Malaysian airliner, MH17, shot over Ukrainian territory in 2014 by Russia-backed militants, another - of Ukrainian International Airlines plane PS752, shot down by an Iranian rocket near Teheran on 8 January 2020. Despite very different circumstances, these two crashes bear similarities - in their link to a broader conflict and involvement of bigger players - Russia, US and Iran, but also in the way in which information and evidence from both tragedies were manipulated.
The event will be held in English.
£10 standard / £7 concessions
Speaker
Michael Bociurkiw
Michael Bociurkiw is a global affairs analyst and the former spokesperson for the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. He was part of the OSCE team which reach the MH17 crash site just 20 or so hours after it fell from the skies. Michael is a CNN Opinion contributor and is a regular on BBC World Service Radio, Bloomberg TV and Al Jazeera. He comments frequently on events in Ukraine and the surrounding region. A Canadian of Ukrainian origin, he has served as global spokesperson for UNICEF and as a media focal point for UNICEF in many emergencies and conflict zones. He has been widely published in such media as Forbes, the Los Angeles Times, the South China Morning Post, and Asia Times. He is on the board of the Ukrainian Journalists Association of North America and the East Europe Foundation.
