Join us for an afternoon with Mikhail Zygar, a distinguished journalist, filmmaker, and author who has been at the forefront of challenging narratives about Russia and Ukraine. This immersive masterclass and student Q&A promises to be a transformative exploration of contemporary geopolitics, media resistance, and historical understanding.
About Mikhail Zygar
Mikhail Zygar is a writer, journalist, filmmaker.
He worked for Newsweek Russia and the business daily Kommersant, covering the conflicts in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Serbia, and Kosovo before becoming founding editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent news TV channel, Dozhd (TVRain), which provided an alternative to Kremlin-controlled federal TV channels and gave a platform to opposition voices.
Zygar won the International Press Freedom Award in 2014.
He is the author of All the Kremlin’s Men, a #1 bestseller in Russia that has been translated into over twenty languages and was called one of “9 books that can help you understand Russia right now” by Time magazine, and The Empire Must Die, a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.
Mikhail Zygar has openly protested against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now he lives in New York and writes a weekly column for Der Spiegel.
His new book War and Punishment, tells the story of how the Russian Empire has oppressed Ukraine since the 17th century in order to dismantle Putin’s traditional imperial narrative and start the de-imperialization of Russian history.
