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SUMMARY:&quot\;Double-Headed Eagle: Russia between East and West&quot\; wi
 th Sir Tony Brenton - Sir Tony Brenton
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CONTACT:Ksenia Afonina
DESCRIPTION:There will be a wine reception after the talk.\n\nRussia\, the
  Two-Headed Eagle\, has throughout its history had to look both East and W
 est. For much of the time her political\, economic and cultural links have
  been predominantly bound up with the West\; Peter the Great through Pushk
 in to BP. But Europeans have never really accepted Russians as like themse
 lves\, and have regularly presented them as alien\, and often dangerous\, 
 outsiders. Meanwhile there has been a much less visible (at least from the
  West) Asian dimension to Russian history ranging through the Mongol Yoke\
 , the assimilation of large Muslim populations\, the striking prominence o
 f the Caucasus in Russia’s culture and politics\, and Russia’s often t
 empestuous relations with key Asian powers such as China and Japan. We loo
 k at this East/West dissonance in Russia’s place in the world\, and ask 
 where\, at a time when China is in the ascendant and Europe in decline\, t
 hings may go.\n\n*WHEN:* Monday 29 November\, 19:00 (doors open at 18:30)\
 n\n*WHERE:* Lecture Theatre\, Trinity Hall\, Cambridge CB2 1TJ\n\nSee (A) 
 on the map available "here":https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uplo
 ads/2018/02/central-site-map.pdf.\n\n*LANGUAGE:* English\n\n*FEE:* CamRuSS
  members – Free\; Non-members – £5\; Children under 16 – Free.\n\nP
 lease "REGISTER":https://forms.gle/aJ6C6qScUSDscJ1H9 no later than 19:00 o
 n Sunday 28 November (24 hours prior to the event).\n\nSee this event on t
 he "CamRuSS website":http://www.camruss.com/en/events/double-headed-eagle-
 russia-between-east-and-west-with-sir-tony-brenton/.\n\n*About the speaker
 *\n\nSir Tony Brenton KCMG is a distinguished British diplomat and writer 
 on international issues. He served in the Foreign Office for more than 30 
 years.\n\nTony first learnt Arabic and spent three years in Cairo working 
 on the Middle East Dispute. From 1980-1989 he handled European matters in 
 London and in Brussels\, working on energy issues and the birth of Europea
 n environmental policy. Back in London\, he ran UN issues in the Foreign O
 ffice and took charge of the preparation for the 1992 ‘Earth Summit’\,
  which achieved the first global agreement on Climate Change.\n\nAfter a y
 ear at Harvard he published a book about international environmental polic
 y\, _The Greening of Machiavelli_ (Royal Institute of International Affair
 s\, Energy and Environmental Programme\, 1994)\, learnt Russian and spent 
 1994-1998 in Moscow dealing with Russian economic reform.\n\nAfter a furth
 er period in London on UN matters (including the establishment of the Inte
 rnational Criminal Court)\, he was posted in 2001 to Washington\, dealing 
 with the consequences of 9/11\, the Afghanistan war and the Iraq war.\n\nI
 n 2004-2008 he was posted to Moscow as Ambassador where he managed Britain
 ’s relations with Russia during a turbulent period.\n\nHe edited the pub
 lication _Historically Inevitable?: Turning Points of the Russian Revoluti
 on_ (Profile Books\, 2016) and is a regular commentator in _The Times_\, _
 The Guardian_\, _The Telegraph_\, _The Independent_ and other British publ
 ications. Tony is also a Director of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
  and a Fellow of Wolfson College\, Cambridge.\n\nSir Tony Brenton has been
  a Patron of the Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society since May 2018.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Trinity Hall\, Cambridge CB2 1TJ
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