There are so many amazing people teaching here this summer including Louis Sell who spent a good deal of his 28 year Foreign Service career dealing with the USSR and Russia, and he just completed From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSR (Duke University Press, 2016) https://www.dukeupress.edu/from-washington-to-moscow/?viewby=title
Louis gave an informal talk about his work as a diplomat in Russia and had some great insights into the current issues between the relationship with the US and Russia in the garden at RIT-K. He has followed the career and life of President Putin and it was so interesting to hear his candid and “off the record” views about this leader we hear so much about in the media. The program has these informal talks every week or so. Today Col. Michael E. Hess (retired) will talk about the stresses of life on a peace keeping mission. Mike, as everyone calls him here, has served and led some of the most important peacekeeping operations in the past 20 years including the operation in Kosovo. Many of the students are taking his class about peacekeeping.
