Book Night - Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

The OPC is pleased to host a book night for Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia, a conversation with author Anne Garrels, former NPR Moscow bureau chief, and Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project and former Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times.

Putin Country is based on more than two decades of reporting by Garrels in Russia - in particular her frequent and lengthy visits to Chelyabinsk, a gritty, military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow. Her stories from Chelyabinsk, in the Russian heartland, help illuminate the aftershocks of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Vladimir Putin.