16.09.2011 - 17.09.2011 Events, Аrt

Gazeta Wyborcza editor-in-chief Adam Michnik at the 18 Lviv Book Forum


16 September, 17.00 – round table “20 years without USSR”

17 September, 10.00 – open lecture “Czesław Miłosz and the new Europe”

Round table “20 years without USSR” is an attempt to start a broadminded dialog of experts about events of contemporary history. Experts and participants of events from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany and France are invited to the dialog. Some of the participants are historians Yaroslav Hrytsak, Georgy Kasyanov, head of the Memorial Fund, Arseny Roginsky, politician Gennady Burbulis, Gazeta Wyborcza editor-in-chief Adam Michnik. Moderator is Boris Dolgin, Polit.Ru scientific editor.

Adam Michnik is a public person, essayist, dissident, political prisoner, activist of the trade union movement “Solidarity”, founder and editor-in-chief of the most influential Polish print publications Gazeta Wyborcza. He won the prize “For freedom” of the French PEN-club, international prize Erasmus (Netherlands), and prize of the European journalist union. He is a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France) and others. In 2007 he was awarded with the “Prince Yaroslav the Wise” order of the III grade.

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