Dean Allison at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On February 16th, 2017. See this statement in context.

February 16th, 2017 / 9:40 a.m.

Conservative

The Vice-Chair Conservative Dean Allison

Welcome back.

Here we are in our second hour of discussion on the situation in eastern Europe and central Asia.

I want to welcome our two guests, who are joining us by video conference. Anders Aslund is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council.

Welcome, sir. We're glad to have you here.

Also joining us is Samuel Charap, who is a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington, DC.

He is joining us from New York today. Welcome.

Let's get started. We're going to have both gentlemen give us their testimonies. Then we'll go back and forth among the members for questions over the remaining 55 minutes.

I'm going to start with you, Mr. Charap. The floor is yours, sir.

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