The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Julius Strauss
Former Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph

"Independence for Kosovo:
Why the west chose to support the move and
what it means for relations with Russia."

Friday, March 14, 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 12th March to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

I first travelled to the Balkans as a freelance photographer during the Serbo-Croat and Bosnian wars. Later I worked in central Europe and the Balkans, contributing to The Daily Telegraph and The European.

In 1996 I was offered the Daily Telegraph's Balkans Correspondent job and moved to live in a beautiful old, shabby flat in Sarajevo, a city just beginning to recover from four years of destruction.

I covered the aftermath of the Bosnian war - the mass graves and the hatreds - the war in Kosovo - more killing and revenge - and, finally, the overthrow of Milosevic.
Intermittently I also worked in Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece and central Europe. Later I worked in Sierra Leone and spent several months in Afghanistan, both in the north and Kabul, after 9/11.

In late 2002, I moved to Russia as Moscow Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
After spending the war in Iraq, I returned to cover Putin's Russia, the emergence of Chechen terrorism and the soft revolutions in the former CIS.