Friday Mar. 7, 2014 – 10am
Posted Mar 7, 2014 01:47:41 PM.
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10:00am- Paul Waldie, Globe and Mail European Bureau Chief, Re: With the Crimean government pushing ever closer to Russia, the territory’s independent media is coming under increasing attack. Officials have cut the signal of Crimea’s largest independent broadcaster, Black Sea TV, and there are several reports of journalists being beaten and detained by “self defence” forces, groups of men wearing pro-Russian ribbons who have started patrolling streets and standing in front of government buildings.
10:30am- John Jaworsky, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, Re: Jaworsky has a special interest in Crimea. He can speak on politics in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and the politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He says “The rhetoric used by Russia’s President Putin to justify military intervention in Crimea, is in many respects similar to the rhetoric used by Hitler just before World War II to annex Czechoslovakia in 1938, and invade Poland in 1939.”
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