Ukraine’s Medal of Iaroslav Mudryi was bestowed on Hoover research fellow Robert Conquest by Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Oleh Shamshur, on behalf of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yuschenko.
In Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security Hoover fellow A. Lawrence Chickering and his coauthors examine the roles local civil society organizations could play in promoting change in countries that resist advice from other states and from international organizations.
President George W. Bush met with Hoover Institution fellows at the residence of Distinguished Fellow George P. Shultz on Friday, April 21, as he began a four-day tour of Northern California.
On December 9, 2005, the editors and publisher of the seven-volume The History of Stalin's Gulag were awarded the 2005 Silver Medal for Human Rights by Vladimir Lukin, plenipotentiary for human rights in the Russian Federation.
President George W. Bush met with the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers on Monday, February 27, the first day of the overseers' annual meeting in Washington, D.C.