Organized by the project Country and World Country and World

Country and World: Russian Realities 2024

Berlin, November 28-29

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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
Kirill Rogov
Political scientist, director of the Re:Russia project
Long-Term Military Putinism VS Post-Putin Russia: Scenarios for Future
Ekaterina Shulman
Ekaterina Shulman
Political scientist, non-resident scholar at Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center Berlin
Routinising the Extraordinary: Bureaucrats and Commissars in the Wartime Management System

Session 2

Without a Beautiful Russia of the Future: Are There Good Scenarios?

11.40-13.00 CET

Andrey Kolesnikov
Andrey Kolesnikov
Columnist for Novaya Gazeta and The New Times
The Russian Spanish dream: is normalization after Putin possible
Alexander Morozov
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
Mikhail Minakov
Philosopher, head of the Ukrainian research program at the Kennan Institute
Conditions for Peace in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia
Andreas Umland
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
The Fate of Ukraine and International Security Order
Sergey Lagodinsky
Sergey Lagodinsky
Online
Co-discussant
Member of the European Parliament
Maxim Kurnikov
Maxim Kurnikov
Leading Editor of Bild, Head of Echo Media

Session 4

The New Cold War

15.40-17.00 CET

Konstantin Eggert
Konstantin Eggert
Columnist and programme host at Deutsche Welle
Invasion 2.0? Why the Baltic States consider themselves frontline states
Maria Snegovaya
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
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
Jana Puglierin
Head of the European Council on Foreign Relations Berlin, Senior Policy Fellow
Continued Support for Ukraine in Light of the German Coalition Collapse and Trump 2
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Expert on Central and Eastern Europe, columnist for Deutsche Welle, international editor of The Insider
Maxim Kurnikov
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
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
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

Mariana Katsarova
Mariana Katsarova
United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights issues within the Russian Federation
TBA
Sergey Davidis
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

Session 8

Russian-language media: between those who left and those who staying in Russia

14.00-15.20 CET

Elizaveta Osetinskaya
Elizaveta Osetinskaya
Founder of The Bell and «This is Osetinskaya» projects
Independent Media in Exile: Economic Sustainability and Contact with the Audience
Taisiya Bekbulatova
Taisiya Bekbulatova
Founder of independent Russian publications Kholod and Kosa
Independent media in exile: will a communicative ‘iron curtain’ emerge this time?
Maxim Trudolyubov
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
Andrei Yakovlev
Associate Researcher, Davis Center, Harvard and Research Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Political Economy of Wartime
Pavel Luzin
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

Michael Komin
Michael Komin
Political scientist, visiting researcher at the European Council on Foreign Affairs (ECFR)
Ella Paneyah
Ella Paneyah
Sociologist
Nikolai Petrov
Nikolai Petrov
Head of the Centre for Political and Geographical Studies
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Ivan Preobrazhensky
Expert on Central and Eastern Europe, columnist for Deutsche Welle, international editor of The Insider

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