My New Colleague

It’s nice finally to be able to announce publicly that Andrei Illarionov, one of Russia’s most outspoken friends of liberty, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow. The announcement (English, Russian) has led to an enormous amount of coverage in Russia (English on Mosnews.com), as well as across the Russian blogosphere. Andrei will speak at the conference on “Freedom, Commerce, and Peace: A Regional Agenda” (English, Russian) that I’m organizing in Tbilisi later this month.