Russian invasion of Ukraine: How to report from a warzone

September 27, 2023 | 1:00PM - 3:00PM
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In-person
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

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This event took place in-person at Room 208N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON.
One of the most prominent Czech journalists, Ondřej Kundra, spoke about the war in Ukraine based on his first hand experience, further discussing how to report about the atrocities of the Russian aggression.
 
About the Speaker
 
Ondřej Kundra currently works in the Respekt weekly as a deputy editor-in-chief. He has received numerous journalism awards for political analysis and investigative reporting, including the prestigious Ferdinand Peroutka Prize. He is the author of Meda Mládková’s biography My Amazing Life (2014), a book about Russian spies; Putin’s Agents (2016), for which he was nominated for the Magnesia Litera award. Together with Tomáš Lindner, he wrote the documentary book My Son the Terrorist (2017).  The book of the story of Vendulka Voglová about the most famous photo of the Holocaust of Czechoslovak Jews is called Flight to Freedom. His last book is Novichok or Bullet (2021) about the dirty operations of Russian intelligence. He has been eight times in Ukraine since last February when the Russian full-scale invasion started.
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Olga Kesarchuk olga.kesarchuk@utoronto.ca

Speakers

Ondřej Kundra
Ondrej Kudrna

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Respekt Weekly