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Evgeny Kiselev will give a presentation entitled Voice of the People (Compromised) at the Ohio Union on October 13, 2025, from 2:00-4:00pm.
Evgeny Kiselev, who now lives in Spain due to persecution in Russia, was a Russian-Ukrainian television host, political analyst, and author of a Russian-language YouTube channel bearing his name. He began his journalistic career in the mid-1980s and co-founded NTV, then Russia's largest independent private television channel. He has interviewed prominent politicians, including U.S. presidents Nixon, Carter, and Clinton, as well as world leaders such as Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and Thatcher. Due to the opposition to Putin, Kiselev was ousted from NTV in 2001 and persecuted as a persona non grata, prompting a move to Ukraine in 2008. After Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, Kiselev was blacklisted in Russia as a "foreign agent." In January 2025, he appeared in a CBC documentary titled "Putin's Dark Rise to Power."
This program is part of the Armed Conflicts and Im/mobility: The Courage, Creativity, and Resilience of People Remaining in Conflict and Disaster Zones project, which is sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme and the Mershon Center.
