Ekaterina Schulman & Maksim Kournikov

 

Ekaterina Schulman is a well-known political scientist and publicist, PhD in political science and a popular speaker on Russian lawmaking. Her ability to talk in simple language, reasonably but with characteristic humour about complex things happening in the political world has gotten her millions of viewers in different countries. Ekaterina is the rare speaker who receives a standing ovation at the beginning of the event when she takes the stage and at the end of the meeting.

 

Together with journalist Maksim Kournikov (ex-deputy editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy, head of ECHO), she hosts the weekly author programme Status on the YouTube channels Bild and Jivoy Gvozd. Ekaterina Schulman and Maksim Kournikov will discuss in Riga and answer questions from the audience. Save the date!