Dmitry Bykov is one of Russia’s leading public intellectuals, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European Studies. Meet with Dmitry for an hour of public conversation with Mabel Berezin, Director of the Institute for European Studies. Prof. Berezin will ask him about the role of dissent in intellectual life in Russia, what drove him to becoming a poet and satirist, and his views on the current situation in Ukraine and Russia.