Arkady Ostrowsky Moscow Correspondent,
The Economist, Russia
DISCUSSANT:Bill BowringProfessor of Law; Director of Mooting, the Teaching Laboratory; Director LL.M/M.A. Human Rights, School of Law, Birkbeck College, London, U.K.
Part of the International Journalism Series. Organized in collaboration with the Reuters Institute, Oxford, U.K. with support from the CCSDD, a joint venture of the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center and the University of Bologna, ItalyARKADY OSTROVSKY
Arkady Ostrovsky is the Moscow Correspondent for
The Economist. He joined the paper in March 2007 after ten years with the
Financial Times where he had spells as a Moscow Correspondent, International Capital Markets reporter and features writer for the Arts and Books section of the paper and its weekend magazine. As the
FT's Moscow correspondent he covered Russian politics and business, including the Yukos Affair, the resurgence of Russia's Security Services, Gazprom, Media and Culture. At
The Economist, Arkady also writes about Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet republics.
Arkady holds a doctorate degree in English Literature (University of Cambridge, 1998). He has particular interest in the history of Russian and English theater and Russia's perception of England.
He has contributed to the first Cambridge History of Russian Theatre as well as to collections of essays on theater history published in America, the U.K., France, Russia and Brazil. He has recently completed a book about Stanislavsky and Shakespeare. Arkady's translation of Tom Stoppard's trilogy, "The Coast of Utopia", has been published in Russia and will be premiered in Moscow in October 2007.
He is the author of a BBC Radio program about Siberia and is a regular contributor to radio and television programs around the world.
He is married with one son and lives in Moscow with his family.
BILL BOWRING
Bill Bowring, B.A., Barrister, is Professor of Law in the School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, and joined the Law School in 2006. He is a practicing barrister at Field Court Chambers, Gray's Inn.
He has previously held posts at the University of East London, University of Essex, and London Metropolitan University, and was director of the Pan-European Institute, University of Essex from 1997-2000, and director of the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, from 2003-2006. He is currently a fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and a visiting professor at the University of Northampton.
Professor Bowring has many publications on topics of international law, human rights, and the law of Russia and other former Soviet Union countries. He frequently acts as a court expert.
Bowring's other professional memberships include: executive committee member of the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, 1992 to present; president of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH), 2005 to present; founder, in 2002, and chair of the International Steering Committee, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC); trustee of REDRESS (reparation and compensation for victims of torture) since 1997; member of the Council of Liberty (National Council for Civil Liberties) 2004 to present; international secretary and past chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, active 1986 to present; member of the Open Society Institute’s Sub Board for Law and Human Rights, 2008 to 2012; member of the Advisory Council of the EU Russia Centre, 2005 to present; member of the Society of Legal Scholars and Socio-Legal Studies Association.
Professor Bowring has extensive professional practice representing applicants and appearing in the European Court of Human Rights. He speaks fluent Russian and has travelled to Russia and other countries of the former USSR and central and Eastern Europe for international organizations on a regular basis.
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