Dec 19 2014
Extra Credit Talk
Today I had the chance to attend an extra credit opportunity in relation to my Art in Ukraine class. A speaker was visiting the college near ours and was speaking on a “Russo-Ukrainian War” This man, Andrei Illarionov, used to be the economic policy advisor to Vladimir Putin. His bio and intro auction to his talk can be seen on the W&L website below.
http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2014/10/24/andrei-illarionov-former-economic-policy-advisor-to-president-vladimir-putin-to-speak-at-wl/
The content of his talk was very interesting, to say the least. He was able to provide a lot of details as to the Russian side of the developments, such as talks that occurred on President Putins aircraft. All of his interesting points of view can me seen online at the link provided below.
http://new.livestream.com/wlu/andrei-illarionov
On a personal level, he was very well spoken and knowledgeable. A majority of his speech involved dates and times to events. This way of talking added validity to his talk and made those less knowledge not want to question him. To me, this style seems indicative of an oppressive government.
All things considered, it was a great learning opportunity to see the other side of the debate. What I found most interesting was how he viewed this at World War 4, while to the rest of the world we have yet to have World War 3