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The Hudson Institute Center for Future Security Strategies 

held an event titled:

 Another Look Into  

Putin’s Soul 

 (Hudson Institute Press, 2006; $14.95) 

by  

Andrei Piontkovsky 

Senior Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute 

Wednesday, July 5, 2006 

12:00 p.m. Registration and Lunch 

12:15 p.m. Remarks by Author 

And comments from 

Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, 

Carl Gershman, President of National Endowment for Democracy, 

David Satter, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, and 

Richard Weitz, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute [moderator]

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In advance of the St. Petersburg G-8 Summit, Hudson Institute published Another Look at Putin’s Soul, a volume of essays by Senior Visiting Fellow Andrei Piontkovsky.  The collection analyzes Russian domestic and foreign policy from 2001-06, especially President Putin’s declaratory shift from solidarity with the U.S. after 9/11 (“Americans, we are with you”) to his comparison of America to “Comrade Wolf…[who]…knows whom to eat…and eats without listening.”  The book argues that Russia and the West cannot remain divided in the face of serious joint challenges.  

“[Piontkovsky] is a profound thinker whose definitions and interpretations of the events in our lives have quite simply become part of the canon of Russian political thought.” 

                                    -Andrei Illarionov, former Senior Economics Advisor to President Putin  

“Andrei Piontkovsky’s honest, stinging and insightful commentaries on the Russian president in particular, and Russian politics in general, follow the long tradition in Russia of ‘laughter through tears’.” 

                                    -Lt. Gen. William E. Odom (ret.), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute 

Books available for purchase and signing

Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center, Hudson Institute,