Dean Vali Nasr and the Conflict Management Program invite you to join the launch of the
Lantos Rule of Law Lecture
with

Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Founder of Open Russia and former Chairman and CEO of YUKOS

In conversation with
P. Terrence Hopmann
Professor of International Relations
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

and
Members of U.S. Congress

Moderated by
Katrina Lantos Swett
President, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice

Tuesday, October 10, 2017
4:30-6:00 pm

Kenney Herter Auditorium, Nitze Building, 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036

This event will be on the record and open to the media Mikhail Khodorkovsky is the founder of the Open Russia movement. A successful businessman, Khodorkovsky was head of YUKOS, one of the world’s largest oil producers, where he established international management codes of practice and substantially increased production. A pioneering philanthropist, he established the Open Russia Foundation in 2001 with the aim of building and strengthening civil society in Russia. An early supporter of democratic change, at a televised meeting with President Putin in early 2003, he criticized endemic corruption. Later that same year he was arrested, and jailed on charges of tax evasion and fraud, charges, which he Aenied and vigorously defended. Khodorkovsky was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, and finally released in December 2013. In 2014, The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that the Russian Government had violated international law by taking YUKOS from its shareholders, for political purposes, described as a “full assault on Yukos and its beneficial owners in order to bankrupt Yukos and appropriate its assets while, at the same time, removing Mr. Khodorkovsky from the political arena.” Today, Khodorkovsky advocates an alternative vision for his country: a strong and just state, committed to observing human rights, free and fair elections, and the rule of law.

A Russian Lecture with Simultaneous Interpretation into English.

For disability accommodations, please contact event organizer at saisevents@jhu.edu