{"id":16128,"date":"2015-03-11T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=16128"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:13:48","slug":"video-lukes-on-nemtsov-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/03\/11\/video-lukes-on-nemtsov-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Lukes on Nemtsov Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/03\/lukes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/03\/lukes.jpg\" alt=\"lukes\" width=\"545\" height=\"317\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/03\/lukes.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/03\/lukes-516x300.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/igor-lukes\/\">Igor Lukes,<\/a> professor of International Relations at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a> said that Vladimir Putin was using Chechen stereotypes to stifle inquiry about the suspicious murder of his prominent political critic Boris Nemtsov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think one would have to be very detached from the real world not to be inclined toward suspicion, skepticism,&#8221; said Lukes. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s fair to say that Putin is playing on the stereotypical view that Russians many have, that turns every Chechen into a terrorist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lukes made his remarks in an interview on Canada&#8217;s CTV news network. You can watch<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=566864\"> the entire interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=566864&#038;playlistId=1.2271490&#038;binId=1.810401&#038;playlistPageNum=1&#038;binPageNum=1\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span>Lukes is an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England.\u00a0His books include\u00a0<em>On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague<\/em><span>\u00a0(New York: Oxford, 2012),\u00a0<\/span><em>Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial<\/em><span>\u00a0(Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, the working papers series, 2006),\u00a0<\/span><em>Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu<\/em><span>\u00a0(Prague: Prostor, 1999), and\u00a0<\/span><em>Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930<\/em><em>\u2032s<\/em><span>\u00a0(New York: Oxford, 1996), which won the Boston Authors Club Award and the Kahn Award.\u00a0 Lukes is also a co-author and co-editor of<\/span><em>The Munich Conference, 1938: Prelude to World War II<\/em><span>\u00a0(London: Frank Cass, 1999),\u00a0<\/span><em>Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union<\/em><span>\u00a0(1990), and\u00a0<\/span><em>Gorbachev\u2019s USSR: A System in Crisis<\/em><span>\u00a0(1990).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee professor Igor Lukes said that Vladimir Putin was using Chechen stereotypes to stifle inquiry about the suspicious murder of his prominent political critic Boris Nemtsov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410,8434],"tags":[8802,8700,1169,8530,8701,8511],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16159,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16128\/revisions\/16159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}