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          Former war correspondent to deliver lecture on Chechen conflict

          
            
              
                
                Published: November 06, 2006
              

              
                Author: Erik Runyon
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Journalist Thomas Goltz, a former war correspondent who covered post-Soviet conflicts during the 1980s and90s, will deliver a lecture titledThe Chechen National Disaster and Other Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Caucasus,at 4:30 p.m. Monday (Nov. 13) in the Annenberg Auditorium of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by the Program in Russian and East European Studies, the presentation is free and open to the public and will include a discussion and video.

Currently a visiting scholar at the University of Montana at Missoula in its Central and Southwest Asia Studies Program, Goltz spent some 20 years in the field as a freelance journalist, covering wars in the post-Soviet Caucasus – the region in eastern Europe and western Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which today includes Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Goltz has written for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Nation and Soldier of Fortune.He has authored three books based on his experiences, the first of which,Azerbaijan Diary,(M.E. Sharpe, 1999) has been hailed asessential reading for all post-Sovietologists.His second book,Chechnya Diary,was published in 2003 by St. Martins Press, and his most recent book,Georgia Diarywas published earlier this year by M.E. Sharpe.

Other sponsors include the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Department of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, and the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy.

Contact: Thomas Marullo at marullo.1@nd.edu or 574-631-5061.

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