Join us for a conversation with Anna’s granddaughter, Anna Politkovskaya, and a full day discussion with leading experts from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Norway, and more.
Program:
09:00 Opening speech
Berit Lindeman, Secretary General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
09:15 – 09:45 Anna Politkovskaya’s Legacy
A conversation with Anna Politkovskaya (granddaughter).
Moderator: Aage Borchgrevink, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
09:45 – 10:30 From Glasnost to “Forbidden Times”
A conversation with:
- John Kvadsheim, Director of Publishing Affairs, Amedia
- Bernhard Mohr, Journalist, author, Cappelen Damm
- Knut Olav Åmås, Executive Director, Fritt Ord
- Per Kristian Aale, Journalist and Moscow correspondent, Aftenposten
Moderator: Berit Lindeman, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 The Cost of Free Speech
A conversation with:
- Katsiaryna Andreeva, Journalist, former political prisoner, Belarus
- Elena Kostyuchenko, Journalist, author, Russia
- Slava Abramov, Chief editor Vlast.kz, Kazakhstan
- Gülsin Harman, Journalist, Turkey
Moderator: Amund Trellevik, investigative journalist, board member PEN Norway and co-founder of Breakwater Festival
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:15 Digital Repression and Trans-National Repression
A conversation with Arzu Geybulla, Access Now
Moderator: Ivar Dale, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
13 15 – 14 15 Big Tech, Big Amplifiers: Disinformation and Propaganda
A conversation with Norwegian politicians:
- Ingrid Fiskaa, MP, Socialist Left Party (SV)
- Mahmoud Farahmand, MP, Conservative Party (H)
- More TBC
Moderator: Dag Andreas Fedøy, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
14:15 – 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 15:45 Bridging the Gap between Documentation and Accountability
A conversation with:
- Lyubov Smachylo, Media Initiative for Human Rights, Ukraine
- Activist from Belarus
- Nino Tlashadze, Trust Fund for Victims at the ICC, Georgia
Moderator: Lene Wetteland, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
15:45 – 16:30 Journalism in Wartime
A conversation with Oksana Rasulova, Editor, Hromadske.ua, Ukraine
Moderator: Arve Hansen, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
16:30 Closing remarks
TBC
16:45 Documentary film screening
“Die for Putin” – On the recruitment of contract soldiers from Central Asia to Russia’s war in Ukraine (Director: Lukpan Akhmediyarov, Kazakhstan. Running time: 20 minutes).
Introduction by Inna Sangadzhieva, Norwegian Helsinki Committee
This years Anna Politkovskaya Forum is arranged in cooperation with PEN Norway.