BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2015 - The state of the Russian economy: hopeless but not politically serious?

Conference venue: EBRD, One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN, UK
Period: June 22, 2015
Deadline for registrations: June 15, 2015

You are cordially invited to The BEARR Trust Annual Lecture, kindly hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN, at 6pm on 22 June 2015.
Philip Hanson OBE is Emeritus Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe and former Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham, and an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. He is one of the UK’s most distinguished experts on the Russian economy and the economics of transition.
The event will be under the Chatham House rule*.
The lecture will be followed by a reception, which will allow for further discussion and networking with others with an interest in the field.

Professor Philip Hanson OBE is an associate fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House, London and an Emeritus Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe at the University of Birmingham.  His books include an economic history of the USSR from 1945-91 and a study of patterns of regional economic change in Russia. Past appointments have been at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, Radio Liberty and Michigan, Harvard, Kyoto, Södertörns and Uppsala universities. He is currently working on contemporary Russian economic policy and business-state relations in Russia.

The lecture is free, and all are welcome. However, this is The BEARR Trust’s main fund-raising event of the year, and guests are invited to make an advance donation of £25 per person.  All proceeds will go towards BEARR’s work to support health and welfare and to strengthen civil society through our Small Grants Scheme.
All names must be given in advance for security reasons, so please fill in the booking form and return it as soon as possible, and at the latest by 15 June. Please note that you should arrive in good time, using EBRD’s One Exchange Square entrance only, to allow for security procedures.  No tickets will be issued, but you may assume that if you have sent in your form, places have been reserved for you and your guests.

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