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For Immediate Release
January 17, 2000

Russia's Future Focus of Lawrence University Lecture Series Address


     APPLETON, WIS. -- With Russian President Boris Yeltzin's recent
resignation and Vladimir Putin's improbable rise to power as a timely
backdrop, the future of Russia will be examined in the third installment
of the six-part Lawrence University lecture series "Another American
Century?"
     Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for
Russian Studies at Harvard University and professor of Russian economics
at Wellesley College, presents the address "Is Russia Rising Again?"
Monday, Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. in Main Hall Room 109.  The event is free and
open to the public. 
     Goldman will discuss the implications of the change in Russian
leadership, why Yeltsin resigned and where Putin is likely to lead
Russia.  He also will examine Russia's money laundering and corruption
problems, including how funds from the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund and foreign investors have been misused.
     A leading national authority on Russian economics and politics,
Goldman has written more than a dozen books on the former Soviet Union,
including his most recent, "Lost Opportunity:  What has Made Economic
Reform in Russia So Difficult."  A frequent commentator on "Nightline,"
"Good Morning, America" and "Crossfire," he earned his Ph.D. in Russian
studies from Harvard in 1961. 
     Lawrence's "Another American Century?" lecture series is sponsored
by the Lt. William Kellogg Harkins Jr. Values Program and the Mojmir
Polvolny Lectureship in International Studies, which promote interest
and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.