November 15: DFN Hosts Online Meeting with Russian Journalist Anna Politkovskaya Exiled Author to Discuss Chechnya and Russia's Role in the Fight Against Terrorism
NEWARK, N.J., November 9, 2001 - The Digital Freedom Network (DFN) will host an online meeting with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Thursday, November 15 from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM New York Time (Thursday, 9:00-10:00 PM GMT).
The online meeting, which is free and open to the public, will take place on DFN's Web site at http://dfn.org/meet. No registration is required. Anyone may attend the meeting and post questions to Ms. Politkovskaya in the moderated forum. The chat will be in English, translated by author Andrey Kurkov.
Anna Politkovskaya is an award-winning Russian journalist who covered the war in Chechnya. Her exposes of the atrocities there sparked international protests and forced her to flee her native land last month after she received death threats from the Russian military. Ms. Politkovskaya's articles were collected into a book, A Dirty War: A Russian Reporter in Chechnya, published recently by Harvill Press.
Ms. Politkovskaya will discuss her experiences in Chechnya as well as Russia's new role since the terrorist attacks of September 11. She will also answer questions from the audience.
A free copy of A Dirty War will be awarded to one chat participant, selected at random.
The online meeting will be accessible to anyone running a Java-enabled Web browser or an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client application.
The Digital Freedom Network (DFN) is an international organization that develops and promotes the use of Internet technology for human rights activism. DFN designs online campaigns, makes technical information more readily available to activists, and provides an online voice to those attacked for expressing themselves. DFN's web site is http://dfn.org.
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