Dashed Hopes – Human Rights in the Former Soviet Union
On December 10th, 2006, Boston University held a community-wide Public Event in Observance of International Human Rights Day. Keynote speaker at this panel discussion was Jack Matlock, who was the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union under the Ronald Reagan administration. During this discussion, the topic of priority was human rights in the former Soviet Union and how they were changing or remaining the same. Matlock has written two books on the fall of the Soviet Union: Autopsy of an Empire and Reagan and Gorbachev.
The panelists included: Researcher of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union Nikolai Butkevich, Legal Aid Society Member in Harvard University’s Uzbekistan Scholar at Risk Program Nozima Kamalova, DEMOS Center employee Tatiana Lokshina, and Human Rights Activist, Alexander Verkhovsky.
WBUR aired this panel discussion on January 21st, 2007.