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Back by popular demand!  Join Ed Verona for an update on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including his personal impressions based on visits to Ukraine and experience with Russian business. He discusses the international response to the continuation of war, an assessment of the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian economy, and observations on the political consequences of the war within Russia. This is a follow-up to a presentation given in 2022. You need not have attended that lecture to enroll in this one.

Ed Verona is a former US Foreign Service Officer; former executive director of the Petroleum Advisory Forum (Moscow); oil and gas industry executive (ExxonMobil, Chevron, Texaco); former president of the US-Russian Business Council; chairman and president of the Trident Acquisitions; and senior advisor at McLarty Associates in Washington, DC.