Lukes Interviewed on U.S. Broadcasts in Russia
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed on the broadcast of Current Times, the U.S. government-run news channel, into Russia and Eastern European countries. The move is largely seen as a way to counteract Russia’s unofficial propaganda arms RT and Sputnik.
Lukes was interviewed for a July 5, 2017 article in The Washington Times entitled “Current Time Broadcasts into Russia, Eastern Europe.”
From the text of the article:
“It’s high time that Washington decided to reply to the Kremlin dezinformatsia that comes out of RT and Sputnik, and countless other sources of that kind,” said Cold War scholar Igor Lukes, using a term for the Soviet propaganda machine. “It’s bound to be successful as long as it adheres to telling the truth.”
Mr. Lukes, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, said the U.S. was spending wisely on Current Time, which has a $22 million budget this year.
Igor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.