April 22, 1996 Contact: Jennifer McNulty (408) 459-2495; mcnulty@ua.ucsc.edu

RUSSIAN EXPERTS JOIN UC SANTA CRUZ SCHOLARS TO DISCUSS UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Three Russian political scientists will discuss the upcoming Russian presidential elections, and their comments will be followed by a response from three political scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during a free public forum on Monday, May 6. The forum, "Presidential Elections: Russia and America," will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Silverman Conference Room at Stevenson College on the UC Santa Cruz campus.

Participating in the discussion about the Russian presidential elections, which begin June 16, will be:

-- Vyacheslav Igrunov, director of the Institute for Humanities and Political Studies in Moscow and a member of Russia's Duma (like the U.S. Congress). Igrunov is also a top aide to democratic presidential candidate Grigorii Yavlinskii.

-- Liliya Shevtsova, program director with the Carnegie Foundation in Moscow and a commentator on Russian politics in the Russian media. Shevtsova has also taught at UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University.

-- Aleksander Tsipko, a political scientist with the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow.

The panelists will discuss the expected outcome and the significance of the election. Then, responding to the remarks of their peers, three UCSC faculty members who specialize in American politics will comment on what bearing the Russian election may have on the U.S. presidential race, and they will discuss how different outcomes might affect relations between the two countries. UCSC participants will be:

-- Daniel Wirls, associate professor of politics who specializes in the presidency, Congress, and elections.

-- Michael Brown, associate professor of politics and an expert on public policy. Brown studies social policy, poverty, and politics of the welfare state.

-- Gwendolyn Mink, professor of politics whose expertise encompasses issues of gender, race, and social policy. She also studies racism, labor history, and women and politics.

The event is being sponsored by Stevenson College and the Adlai E. Stevenson Program on Global Security.

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