Roundtable on Russia and the Western Media - 10 December 2008

Former International Editor of The Irish Times Seamus Martin addressed a media roundtable in the IIEA in December 2008 on Russia and the western media. This was a particularly topical issue, coming in the wake of the Russia-Georgia conflict and also following the energy supply crisis that affected Southern and Eastern European Union member states. Seamus also addressed the transfer of power from President Putin to President Medvedev and assessed the impact that this may have on EU-Russian relations and the negotiation of a new EU-Russia agreement initiated in June 2008.

This event was part of the Europe 2.0 project, sponsored by the European Commission.

Speaker Biography:

Seamus Martin is the former International Editor of The Irish Times. He worked as a staff Foreign Correspondent for that paper in the former Soviet Union and South Africa from 1991 to 2000. He now writes on international affairs for The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Examiner and was present at both the Russian and Georgian presidential elections this year. His memoir Good Times and Bad was published earlier this year by Mercier Press.