Russian diplomatic expert to address human rights

Dmitri Trenin, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the deputy director and director of studies at the Carnegie Moscow Center, will speak on "Human Rights and Russian Public Policy" Feb. 21 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The lecture begins at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. (room posted). It is free and open to the public.

Trenin's talk will address Russian policy toward current issues like those involving Chechnya and Ukraine, among others involving major human rights dimensions.

A retired Soviet and Russian army colonel with a doctorate in diplomatic history from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies in Moscow, Trenin is a specialist in foreign and security policy issues with a focus on Russia and Eurasia. He has wide international experience, including with the military assistance group in Iraq in 1975-76, the four-power liaison in Germany from 1978-83, and U.S.-Soviet nuclear and space talks in Geneva in 1985-91.

Trenin taught at the National Defense University in Moscow in 1983-93, and the Free University of Brussels in 1993-1994. Among Trenin's books are "Russia's Restless Frontier: The Chechnya Factor in Post-Soviet Russia"; "The End of Eurasia: Russia on the Border Between Geopolitics and Globalization"; and "Russia's China Problem." He also edited a number of volumes on European, Balkan and Eurasian security.

The talk is sponsored by the UNL Initiative on Human Rights and Human Diversity.

CONTACT: David Forsythe, University Professor, Political Science, (402) 472-1690