We invite you to participate in our upcoming PONARS Eurasia Fridays event series. This online panel series will give you the the opportunity to discuss important policy issues with leading and up-and-coming scholars from North America, Russia, Europe, and Eurasia.

Fridays from 10:00-11:30 am US Eastern Time

This Week
Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation
Friday, October 23
"The People are Tired: Russia's Labor Politics in Light of the Belarus Protests"
Stephen Crowley (Oberlin College)

"A Curious Case of State-Driven Regionalism in the Russian Far East"
Ekaterina Koldunova (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)

"Dynamics of Coercion: The Kremlin's Reaction to Aleksei Navalny's 2018 Presidential Campaign"
Andrei Semenov (Perm State University, Russia)

"Federal Relations in Russia: Playing Against the Rules"
Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg)
Hosted on Cisco Webex
Event Number: 120 451 0716
Event Password: PONARS
Upcoming
Toward the Rule of Law in Eurasia?
Friday, October 30
David Szakonyi (George Washington University); Emilbek Dzhuraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); Ivan Gomza (Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine); Maria Popova (McGill University)
Eurasia's Newest Leaders: How Are They Doing?
Friday, November 20
Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College); Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Armenia); Oleksandr Fisun (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine); Jennifer Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh)
Shaping a Usable Past: Memory Wars in Russia and Central Europe
Friday, December 4
Alexei Miller (European University at Saint Petersburg); James Richter
(Bates College); Ivan Kurilla (European University at Saint Petersburg); Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
Economic Challenges Facing Eurasia in the COVID-19 Era
Friday, December 11
Vladimir Popov (Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute, Berlin); Anar Valiyev (ADA University, Azerbaijan); Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)
Electoral Authoritarianism in Eurasia: Continuities and Transformations
Friday, December 18
Kirill Rogov (Liberal Mission Foundation, Russia); Nikolay Petrov (Chatham House, London); Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College); Igor Okunev (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)
This event series is on the record and open to the media.
PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.