You must register by 5pm on October 18, 2024 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of the documentary film Biography Full of Blood and subsequent discussion with one of the film’s directors, Roman Badanin. Moderated by Elise Giuliano.

This is an investigative film about unknown episodes in the biography of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya. After the screening, Roman Badanin will talk about filming, the current situation in Chechnya, and other current events related to Russia.

Roman Badanin is the founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project, in English) and Agentstvo (The Agency, in English), media organizations that have been targeted by the Russian government for their investigative reporting into the most powerful forces in their country. He started Agentstvo in the summer of 2021 after Russian authorities outlawed Proekt, the nonprofit investigative news organization he founded in 2018. It was Russia’s first nonprofit news organization. Badanin has been working as a journalist in leading independent Russian news organizations for 20 years. He previously was deputy editor-in-chief at Gazeta.Ru, editor-in-chief at Forbes Digital (Russia), RBC News Agency, and editor-in-chief of Dozhd (TV Rain), an independent Russian TV channel. He has also been affiliated with the Gorbachev Foundation and the Russian Academy of Sciences as a researcher and studied history at Moscow State University.