Country and World: Russian Realities 2024
Berlin, November 28-29
The international conference Country and the World: Russian Realities 2024 continues the series of annual conferences, which were held at the Sakharov Centre in Moscow from 2018 to 2021.
The aim of the conference is to analyze the current political, economic and social situation in Russia, which has been waging a war of aggression against Ukraine for two and a half years. The 18 papers presented at the 2-day conference discuss the transformation of the political regime in Russia, global and European political issues in relation to Russian aggression, the wartime Russian economy, the state of Russian society and the repression it faces, as well as the work of independent Russian media in exile.
The conference will take place in Berlin and will be broadcast live on the Youtube channel Country and World. The working languages of the conference are Russian and English with simultaneous translation provided.
Day One
On-site registration at 9.00 CET
Conference opening at 9.40 CET
Session 1
Evolution of the Russian political regime
10.00-11.20 CET
Kirill Rogov
Political scientist, director of the Re:Russia project
TBA
Ekaterina Shulman
Political scientist, non-resident scholar at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Berlin
TBA
Session 2
Without a Beautiful Russia of the Future: Are There Good Scenarios?
11.40-13.00 CET
Andrey Kolesnikov
Columnist for Novaya Gazeta and The New Times
The Russian Spanish dream: is normalization after Putin possible
Alexander Morozov
Political scientist
Russia's Institutional Order after Putin: Programme Ideas of the Russian Opposition
Session 3
Is Sustainable Peace with Russia Possible?
14.00-15.20 CET
Mikhail Minakov
Philosopher, head of the Ukrainian research program at the Kennan Institute
Conditions for Peace in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia
Andreas Umland
Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS) at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
TBA
Maxim Kurnikov
Leading Editor of Bild, Head of Echo Media
Session 4
The New Cold War
15.40-17.00 CET
Konstantin Eggert
Columnist and programme host at Deutsche Welle
Invasion 2.0? Why the Baltic States consider themselves frontline states
Maria Snegovaya
Political scientist, Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, senior fellow at the Europe, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Reviving Containment: The Evolving Western Approaches on Dealing with Putin's Russia
Session 5
Russia and Global Politics
17.20-18.40 CET
Stefan Meister
Head of the Center for Order and Governance in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Competing norm setting: Russia as an actor in regional and global politic
Jana Puglierin
Head of the European Council on Foreign Relations Berlin, Senior Policy Fellow
TBA
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Expert on Central and Eastern Europe, columnist for Deutsche Welle, international editor of The Insider
Maxim Kurnikov
Leading Editor of Bild, Head of Echo Media
Day Two
Session 6
What Do We Know about the Mood of Russians?
10.00-11.20 CET
Oleg Zhuravlev
Sociologist, employee of the Laboratory of Public Sociology, research fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore
How the Attitudes and Views of Russians on War, Power and Russia are Changing: 2022-2024
Alexey Levinson
Head of the socio-cultural research department at the Levada Center
Are Russians tired of war? Or do they not notice it?
Session 7
Repression and Human Rights
11.40-13.00 CET
Sergey Davidis
head of the independent human rights project «Support for political prisoners. Memorial»
Political Repression: a Tool of Control and a Cause for Solidarity
Mariana Katsarova
United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights issues within the Russian Federation
TBA
Session 8
Russian-language media: between those who left and those who staying in Russia
14.00-15.20 CET
Elizaveta Osetinskaya
Founder of The Bell and «This is Osetinskaya» projects
Independent Media in Exile: Economic Sustainability and Contact with the Audience
Taisiya Bekbulatova
Founder of independent Russian publications Kholod and Kosa
Independent media in exile: will a communicative ‘iron curtain’ emerge this time?
Maxim Trudolyubov
Editor-in-Chief, The Russia File, the blog of Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
Session 9
Economics at War
15.40-17.00 CET
Andrei Yakovlev
Associate Researcher, Davis Center, Harvard and Research Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Political Economy of Wartime
Pavel Luzin
Military policy specialist, visiting fellow at the Fletcher School, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, non-resident senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis
The Russian Military-Industrial Complex and the Army at the End of the Third Year of the War
Session 10
Closing discussion
17.00-18.30 CET
Margarita Zavadskaya
Political scientist, sociologist, researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Michael Komin
Political scientist, visiting researcher at the European Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFR)
Ella Paneyah
Sociologist
Nikolai Petrov
Head of the Centre for Political and Geographical Studies
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Expert on Central and Eastern Europe, columnist for Deutsche Welle, international editor of The Insider
Registration
Registration form
The number of seats in the venue is limited. If you wish to attend the Country and World: Russian Realities 2024 conference in Berlin, please register using the button below. Alternatively, if you prefer, you can listen to the conference online via Zoom with simultaneous English translation: just register, and we will send you the Zoom link via email.
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