Lifflander | What's Old is New: The End of the Last Cold War and the Start of a New One (5.25.2017)

The Ellison Center at the University of Washington

Justin Lifflander moved to Moscow in the fall of 1987 with a degree in Soviet Studies and a desire to become a US intelligence officer. Things didn’t work out as he planned. He tells the story of the warming relations between the super powers – first from the perspective of an embassy driver, then as a missile inspector in the provincial town of Votkinsk. Thirty years later – still in Russia – career and family have given him a broad set of experiences that provide for a unique view of Russia’s relations with the rest of the world. After his weapons inspector role, Lifflander worked as an executive for Hewlett-Packard Russia for twenty years. He then served as the business editor for the Moscow Times from 2010 to 2014 and authored several articles about Russian-American relations.