11/17/99

Kathleen O'Toole, News Service (650) 725-1939; e-mail: kathleen.otoole@stanford.edu

New war in Chechnya to be discussed Nov. 23

Stanford's Center for Russian and East European Studies will host a roundtable discussion of "The New War in Chechnya" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in the Wattis Room of the Littlefield Management Center on Lasuen Street.

The panelists will be John Dunlop, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution; Andrew Kuchins, associate director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation; Gail Lapidus, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Studies who has studied ethnic group conflicts and methods for resolving them within the former Soviet Union; and Thomas W. Simons, consulting professor of history and former U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan.

For more information, contact Mary Dakin at (650) 725-6852 or mdakin@leland.stanford.edu.

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