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
Electoral Authoritarianism in Eurasia: Continuities and Transformations
Friday, December 18
"The Political Participation that Enables Putin"
Danielle Lussier (Associate Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College)

"Neighborhood Effects on Electoral Behavior in Eurasia: Focus on Parliamentary Elections in Poland and Belarus 2019"
Igor Okunev (Director of the Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations at Moscow State Institute of International Relations)

"More Than a Transition: Non-Democratic Transfer of Power and Regime Dynamics in Post-Soviet Countries"
Kirill Rogov (Political Analyst at the Liberal Mission Foundation, Moscow)

"Transforming Russia's Political Regime"
Nikolay Petrov (Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House, London)
Hosted on Cisco Webex
Event Number: 120 572 1508
Event Password: PONARS
Event Link: https://gwu.webex.com/gwu/onstage/g.php?MTID=e52253caf900ce012712ab89fa45a0b72
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.