We’ve got exciting updates from Inliberty.ru the Russian website run by the Atlas Global Initiative. Over the course of the last few weeks seminars with Mont Pelerin Society president  Deepak Lal for students at Universities across Russia. Below is a note from Anna Krasinskaya, who has been coordinating these events:
The photos you will find here [...]

Here are some of the things going on around AGI this week:

Libertarianism, A Primer, by David Boaz is translated into Kurdish and Farsi and was published in Iraqi Kurdistan by Chiraiazadi.org and Cheragheazadi.org.
UnMondeLibre.org translated the speech by Thompson Ayodele, executive director of Initiative for Public Policy Analysis in Nigeria, given at the Strasbourg Parliament in [...]

Inliberty.ru recently published David Green’s book Reinventing Civil Society in a Russian-language edition.

Already, the book has attracted a lot of attention with a positive review on Openspace.ru, a leading cultural and social news magazine leading to lots of attention in the Russian blogosphere. The publication is part of the Atlas Global Initiative’s extensive publishing campaign.

A week ago, Atlas conducted a successful event in Dallas, Texas. The event, entitled Risk in a Free Society was co-sponsored with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a long time ally of Atlas which was also created by our founder Antony Fisher. Although a variety of discussions emerged throughout the course of the [...]

In the early 1990 there were several conferences on the end of the Soviet Union in which I participated. They were directed by Dr. John H. Moore, formerly deputy director of the Hoover Institution and of the National Science Foundation, who then was the director of the International Institute at George Mason University and later [...]

This weekend brought disconcerting news for those of us who follow Latin American issues. The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has agreed to allow Russia to engage in joint naval exercises in the Caribbean. It is no secret that Chavez has ties with Russia, Iran and China and we know that his intentions for the [...]

Speaking at International Thursday this month:

Anthony Livanios- Hellenic Leadership Institute (Greece)
-Initiatives in Egypt
Chris Brown-Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
-Constitutional Referendum in Bolivia
Jon Utley- HACER
-Proportional Representation
Jeff Goldstein- Freedom House
-The Russia/Georgia Conflict

The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month:

Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers
Week 2: [...]

 

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by Luke Seidl
Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote, “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” As Russian tanks retreat through the Roki Tunnel and Georgians pick up the pieces in Tbilisi, Poti, and Gori, we recall that on this day 40 years ago Soviet tanks rolled through Czechoslovakia in an [...]

Last week Russian tanks entered the South Ossetian region of the Republic of Georgia. The New Economic School has kept us informed about what is taking place.