BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:227@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170217T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T085156Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/checkmate-russia-us/ SUMMARY:"Checkmate: Predictions on Russia's Maneuvering & the US Response " with Capt. Gary Tabach (US Navy\, Ret.) DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bio:\n\nCaptain Gary (Yuri) Tabach was born in Moscow\, USSR and lived there until 1976 when his family immigrated to Philadelphi a\, Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from Temple University School of Pharmac y in 1985\, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Captain Tabach holds the distinction of being the first Soviet-born citizen to be commis sioned an officer in the Armed Forces of the United States.\n\nCaptain Tab ach’s Navy career is a highly distinguished one\, serving a number of cr itical roles over the past two decades. In 1991\, Captain Tabach was assig ned to the Department of State as an Adviser to US Ambassador and Special Presidential Envoy to the former Soviet Union. His next role was in the US Embassy in Moscow as a member of the Prisoner of War - Missing in Action Commission. This organization searched for U.S. POWs and MIAs in the forme r Soviet Union. Captain Tabach then served as a Chief Military Information Officer for the United Nations Military Observer Mission in Georgia. His team successfully negotiated the hostage release of UNOMIG personnel.\n\nC aptain Tabach served as a chief in the Arms Control Implementation Unit at the U.S. Embassy in Almati\, Kazakhstan. Throughout the 2000’s\, Captai n Tabach served as a Program Manager in the Defense Threat Reduction Offic e at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and then as a Naval Affairs Officer\, at t he U.S. Embassy in Warsaw\, Poland. Then\, from 2006 to 2008\, he acted as the first U.S. Deputy Director at the Defense Against Terrorism Center Of Excellence in Ankara\, Turkey. There he led an international staff of 90 officers from 7 different NATO countries.\n\nAt the end of his esteemed ca reer\, Captain Tabach served as Chief of Staff for the NATO Military Liais on Mission in Moscow\, Russia. There he acted as the liaison between NATO ’s Military Committee and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federat ion. He has since retired from the Navy in 2011.\nCaptain Tabach has accru ed many personal awards throughout his career including: Defense Service M edal\, Legion of Merit\, four Joint Defense Meritorious Service Medals\, D efense Meritorious Service Medal\, two Joint Commendation Medals\, United Nations Medal\, Navy Commendation Medal\, Meritorious Honor Award\, Joint Achievement Medal and two Naval Achievement Medals.\n\nCaptain Tabach earn ed an MBA degree from Jacksonville University in 1992. He is married to hi s childhood sweetheart Irine Volis-Tabach and they have two children Miche lle (22) ENS\, U.S. Navy and Eric (16).\n\n\n\n Moderated by Russ Howell.\ nHowell is the former Director of the American Russian Center\, University of Alaska Anchorage. From 1993 to 2009 ARC conducted more than 2200 busin ess training\, civil society development\, and educational exchange progra ms in Anchorage through seven small business training centers in the Russi an Far East. In that 16 year period over 60\,000 participants and entrepre neurs completed ARC training courses on a variety of topics from banking t o retail sales\, airport management and marketing. Prior to his time at UA A Russ served 21 years as an Infantry officer and a Foreign Area Officer i n the US Army analyzing events in the former Soviet Union for senior milit ary and civilian leaders in Washington DC. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the US Military Academy at West Point and a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California. He is also a graduate of the US Army Russian Institute\, the US Army Command and General Staff College and other military training. Following his service at UAA he worked briefly as a project officer at the Northern Forum and no w spends his time fighting a losing battle trying to convince his grandchi ldren that age and cunning beat youth and enthusiasm.\n\n\n\nIf you are a teacher who would like to bring a student group to a program\, please visi t our student page for more information\, and contact us about accommodati ng your group at rsvp@alaskaworldaffairs.org. Please do not register stude nts individually using the form below.\n\n\n\nIf you would like to access the podcast for this program\, which is kindly provided by Alaska Public m edia\, please click here.\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2017/01/Tabach.jpg CATEGORIES:International Program Series LOCATION:Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center\, 600 W 7th Ave\, Anchorage\ , Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States GEO:61.21509609999999;-149.8945164 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS= 600 W 7th Ave\, Anchorage\ , Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Dena'i na Civic and Convention Center:geo:61.21509609999999,-149.8945164 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20161106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:AKST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR