BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:211@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160518T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160518T190000 DTSTAMP:20231222T084450Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/one-to-one-russia/ SUMMARY:One-to-One: Russia DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nJoin the Alaska World Affairs Council for the first pro gram in our One-to-One series of interactive conversations spotlighting th e perspectives of military and civilian guest speakers on global subjects that matter.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nMilitary Guest Speaker: Lieutenant Ge neral Russell Handy\nLt. Gen. Russell J. Handy is Commander\, Alaskan Comm and\, U.S. Northern Command\; Commander\, Eleventh Air Force\, Pacific Air Forces\; and Commander\, Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Region\ , North American Aerospace Defense Command\, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richards on\, Alaska. General Handy is the senior military officer in Alaska\, resp onsible for the integration of all military activities in the Alaskan join t operations area\, synchronizing the activities of more than 21\,000 acti ve-duty and reserve forces from all services. He is also responsible for t he planning and execution of all Homeland Defense operations within the th eater\, including security and civil support actions.  General Handy also commands Eleventh Air Force\, overseeing the training and readiness of fi ve wings and Air Force installations located in Alaska\, Hawaii\, and Guam .  As Commander of the Alaskan Region of the North American Aerospace Def ense Command\, General Handy directs operations to ensure effective survei llance\, monitoring and defense of the region’s airspace.\n\n \;\n\n Civilian Guest Speaker: David Ramseur\nDavid Ramseur is a Visiting Scholar in Public Policy at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage where he is writing a book on the melting o f the “Ice Curtain” between Alaska and the Soviet Far East in the 198 0s and 90s. A 37-year-Alaskan\, Ramseur served for six years as chief of staff to U.S. Senator Mark Begich. Between 2003-08\, he was chief of staff to then Anchorage Mayor Begich. He also served Alaska Governors Tony Know les and Steve Cowper as chief of staff\, press secretary and foreign polic y advisor. In 1988\, Ramseur helped organize the “Friendship Flight” b etween Nome\, Alaska and Provideniya\, Russia\, which reunited indigenous families on both sides of the Bering Strait and helped launch nearly two d ecades of commercial\, scientific and cultural activity between the region s. He managed a $2 million federal grant for educational and scientific ex changes between Alaska and the Russian Far East at UAA's American Russian Center and worked in Nizhny-Novgorod\, Russia\, as a volunteer media advis or. He has traveled extensively in Russia\, Asia\, Europe and the Arctic. He holds a political science bachelor’s degree from the University of No rth Carolina Asheville and a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri.\n\n \;\nModerator: General Joseph Ralston (USAF\, Retired )\nGeneral Ralston served in the nation's second highest-ranking military position as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He also served as Commander of U.S. European Command and Commander of NATO. General Ralston is known to many Alaskans as the former Commander of the Alaskan Command a nd the Alaskan NORAD Region. As Commander of the US European Command from (2000-2003)\, General Ralston was the senior U.S. military officer and com mander of all U.S. forces in an area of responsibility that covers more th an 21 million square miles and includes 93 nations. This territory extends from the North Cape of Norway\, through the waters of the Baltic and Medi terranean seas\, most of Europe\, parts of the Middle East\, to the Cape o f Good Hope in South Africa. He led the command in daily missions in the w ar against terrorism\, from the streets of Bosnia to the waters of the Med iterranean. And he oversaw air operations in the no-fly zone over Northern Iraq.\n \n\n \;\n\n\n\n Thank you to our generous venue sponsor:\n\ n\n\n \;\n\nLight refreshments provided by:\n\n\n        \n\n&n bsp\;\n\nIn order to encourage relationship building within our community\ , the goal of the One-to-One series is to have attendance of the program b e one-for-one military and civilian individuals.\n\nTo hear about these pr ograms in the future\, before they fill-up\, please join our e-newsletter to receive announcements. CATEGORIES:One-to-One LOCATION:Cyrano's Theatre Company\, 411 D St\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, Uni ted States GEO:61.218267;-149.88908400000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=411 D St\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cyrano's Theatre Company :geo:61.218267,-149.88908400000003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20160313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR