Dmitri Yakovlev's talk will consider the question, "Can Putin's war be stopped?" by examining the complex sociopolitical dimensions at work in Ukraine, Russia, the United States, and Europe. Please join him as he explores:

- What will it take to stop Putin's war?

- Who wants the war to stop and who does not

- What's not on the surface

Finally, Dmitri will discuss what is not covered in the news. Audience members will be invited to participate in a Q&A.

About the presenter:

Dmitri is COO and co-founder of a local high-tech company and works with a web development team in Ukraine.

“As I speak with members of our team in Ukraine, I often hear rocket alarms going off during our Skype conversation. To me, it’s unnerving. They simply work through it.”

Since Putin’s war started, Dmitri has been helping raise funds for Ukraine to purchase power generators for local maternity and psychiatric hospitals (Russia is bombing Ukraine’s infrastructure to leave citizens without power or heat). In 1991 Dmitri spent two nights on the barricades in Moscow streets standing up for democracy during the coup-d’etat attempt. He is a dual citizen of Russia and USA, living here since 1993. He has family in the US, Russia, and Ukraine. Dmitri was in Moscow on the day Putin started the war and saw firsthand the reaction of Muscovites: the unrest, the protests, the panic, the ugly support for Putin and his war.