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DESCRIPTION:Event Description:\n\nThis panel\, led by public figure\, refor
 mer and entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky\, will address the institutional
  causes of Russian authoritarianism and offer prospects and opportunities 
 for Russia's transition to democracy.\n\nThis event will be in Russian wit
 h consecutive translation to English.\n\nPanelists:\n\nMikhail Khodorkovsk
 yAnastasia BurakovaAnastasia ShevchenkoDmitry GudkovSpeaker bios:\n\nMikha
 il Khodorkovsky. A successful businessman\, Khodorkovsky was head of YUKOS
 \, one of the world’s largest oil producers\, where he established inter
 national management codes of practice\, and substantially increased produc
 tion. As a pioneering philanthropist\, he established the Open Russia Foun
 dation in 2001 with the aim of building and strengthening civil society in
  Russia. Having been one of the earliest supporters of democratic change\,
  Khodorkovsky criticised endemic corruption at a televised meeting with Pr
 esident Putin in early 2003. Later that same year he was arrested\, and ja
 iled on charges of tax evasion and fraud\, charges\, which he denied and v
 igorously defended. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to fourteen years in prison
 . He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International\; and 
 finally released in December 2013. In 2014\, the Hague Permanent Court of 
 Arbitration ruled that the Russian Government had violated international l
 aw by taking YUKOS from its shareholders\, for political purposes\, descri
 bed as a “full assault on Yukos and its beneficial owners in order to ba
 nkrupt Yukos and appropriate its assets while\, at the same time\, removin
 g Mr. Khodorkovsky from the political arena.”As the leader of the Russia
 n opposition and the founder of the Open Russia movement\, Khodorkovsky ad
 vocates for an alternative vision for his country: a strong and just state
 \, based on a parliamentary republic model and committed to observing huma
 n rights\, free and fair elections\, and the rule of law while campaigning
  for building a strong civil society in Russia. Oscar-winning documentaria
 n Alex Gibney covered Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s life story in his latest fi
 lm Citizen K which is currently featured on Amazon Prime. \n\nAnastasia Bu
 rakova. Founder of "The Ark" (Kovcheg) project. Since 2017 Anastasia has b
 een working as a human rights lawyer at the Open Russia Human Rights Team.
  Anastasia successfully worked with cases related to freedom of speech\, f
 reedom of associations\, freedom of assembly and labor rights. Anastasia i
 s one of the founders of the United Democrats project\, which provides log
 istic and legal support to independent candidates on local elections in fi
 ve Russian regions. More than 300 candidates from the United Democrats tea
 m were elected. In April\, 2019 Anastasia was elected as the chairperson o
 f Open Russia civic organization\, which was closed in May\, 2021 due to g
 overnment's pressure and high risks for activists. Anastasia left Russia i
 n November\, 2021 because of uprising politically motivated persecution\, 
 and moved to Kyiv\, Ukraine. After the beginning of the war Anastasia laun
 ched "The Ark" (Kovcheg) project. The project's team helps Russian emigran
 ts who face persecution because of their anti-war position. The Ark projec
 t also supports activists who keep on implementing their anti-war activiti
 es and media projects in exile.\n\nAnastasia Shevchenko. Russian political
  activist and public figure. A mother of three\, she was sentenced to 4.5 
 years of suspended jail term as ‘a threat to the foundation of the const
 itutional order of the Russian Federation and the security of the state’
 . She endured house arrest for two years\, and became the first person fou
 nd guilty of “organizing activity of an undesirable organization” by a
  Russian court\, for her work with the Open Russia movement. Amnesty Inter
 national declared her a “prisoner of conscience.” While Anastasia was 
 under arrest\, her teenage daughter Alina was hospitalized and died alone\
 , becoming an early example of the Russian regime’s willingness to use t
 he separation of parents and children as a way to silence dissent. Her sto
 ry is featured in the Oscar short-listed documentary “Anastasia”. In s
 ummer 2022 Anastasia Shevchenko left Russia. She’s been placed on the wa
 nted list and as soon as she arrives to Russia\, she’d face immediate im
 prisonment. Anastasia founded Russians against war community in Lithuania.
  She is a member of Russian action committee. Nowadays she’s taking part
  in organization of anti-war protests of Russian diasporas all over the wo
 rld and campaigns for political prisoners.\n\nDmitry Gudkov. Russian polit
 ician\, public opposition figure and former MP - independent deputy of the
  State Duma (2011-2016)\, worked in two parliamentary commissions on relat
 ions with EU and US.  2012. Member of the Coordinating Council of Russian 
 opposition: Gudkov was one the leaders who led the protest movement that s
 wept the country following the contested Duma elections of 2011. D.Gudkov 
 was on the front lines of the Bolotnaya Square protest in 2011-2013 and pa
 rticipated in the peace march for Ukraine in Moscow. From 2011-2016. Dmitr
 y Gudkov opposed many legislative initiatives of symbolic importance to th
 e Kremlin such as annexation of Crimea and the Anti-Magnitsky act\, which 
 prohibited the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens. In 2017\, th
 e coalition of liberal opposition candidates “United Democrats”\, led 
 by Dmitry Gudkov\, has won a series of triumph victories in local council 
 elections in Moscow. Opposition candidates have gained a majority in more 
 than 25 Moscow districts. Out of around 1\,000 candidates put forward by t
 he “United Democrats”\, 267 have won seats. In 2019 during Moscow city
  parliament elections was one of the independent candidates who had real c
 hance to win but was arrested and put into jail for 36 days.  In June 2021
  was arrested and held in a custody 48 hours on fabricated criminal case s
 taged against his family to prevent him from running for parliament Septem
 ber 2021 and squeezed him out of Russia. He is a member of the Anti-War Co
 mmittee of Russia fighting against the aggressive dictatorship of Vladimir
  Putin.\n\nThe event is at capacity\, people on the waitlist will be conta
 cted if space opens up. \n\nPlease bring registration ticket for admission
 .
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SUMMARY:How to Slay a Dragon? Problems and Challenges of Russian Transition
  from Authoritarianism to Democracy
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