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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thought this Virtual Lecture from Hiram College (my alma mater) might be of interest to some of the FUUSM clan.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Al Tuttle<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Hiram College - Garfield Center for Public Leadership <thompsonja@hiram.edu> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 1, 2023 1:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> tuttlealfred0@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Join us for our fall seminar!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:11.25pt 0in 11.25pt 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=640 style='width:480.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=640 style='width:480.0pt'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 7.5pt 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 3.75pt 0in'></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><img width=610 height=153 style='width:6.3541in;height:1.5937in' id="_x0000_i1033" src="https://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20230901/00/4d/85/57/77bae9d25e51fa1a26ff1ac4_1220x306.jpg"></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%' id="block_embailwc"><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt 12.0pt'><div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=e2ma-style><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>We hope you can join us for our </span></span><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>virtual fall seminar</span></strong><span class=e2ma-style><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> with guest speaker Stephen Kotkin. Kotkin is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is arguably the leading American scholar of the history of the Russian regime.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=e2ma-style><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>The seminar will focus on the impact of the Ukrainian war on Russian politics, as well as the future of the Russian state.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Topic:</span></strong><span class=e2ma-style><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'> WHITHER RUSSIA? CONSIDERING THE POSSIBLE FUTURES OF THE RUSSIAN REGIME</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Date:</span></strong><span class=e2ma-style> Monday, October 16, 5-7 p.m. EST</span><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Where:</span></strong><span class=e2ma-style> The comfort of your own home - Zoom link will be sent out closer to the date of the event.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=e2ma-style><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'>Read more and register by clicking the button below. </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span class=e2ma-style><span 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