David Ramseur book launch Sept. 14
September 7, 2017
Please join former Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter David Ramseur at his Fairbanks book launch, with a special introduction by columnist Dermot Cole,
at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 14, in the Murie Building auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. This is a free public
event. Parking is free after 5 p.m.
Ramseur will discuss his new book "Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen
Diplomacy on the Russia-Ӱpro Frontier" (University of Ӱpro Press).
In 1988, Ramseur helped organize the Ӱpro Airlines “Friendship Flight” between Nome, Ӱpro, and
Provideniya, Russia, which reunited indigenous peoples of common languages and cultures
(Siberian Yupik and others) for the first time in four decades. "Melting the Ice Curtain"
tells the story of how inspiration, courage, and persistence by citizen-diplomats
bridged a widening gap in superpower relations.
Ramseur, who has visited the Soviet Union and Russia more than a dozen times since
1988, is a visiting scholar in public policy at the University of Ӱpro Anchorage’s
Institute of Social and Economic Research. Ramseur served in various roles with Ӱpro
Govs. Steve Cowper and Tony Knowles, and Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich.
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