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

Russia's Foreign Policy: Soft, Hard, Smart Power
Friday, September 25

"Stagnating Economy and Foreign Policy Preferences in Russia: What Does It Mean for Belarus?"
Maria Snegovaya (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

"Where's Wagner? The All-New Exploits of Russia's 'Private' Military Company"
Kimberly Marten (Barnard College, Columbia University)

"'From Russia With Love': Putin's COVID-19 Charm Offensive"
Alexandra Yatsyk (Polish Institute of Advanced Studies)

"From Brotherhood-in-Arms to Uneasy Coexistence: Changing Patterns of Russian Iranian Cooperation in Syria"
Pavel Baev (Peace Research Institute Oslo)
Hosted on Cisco Webex
Event Number: 120 777 8093
Event Password: PONARS

Upcoming
Challenges Facing Ukraine in Domestic and International Politics
Friday, October 2
Mikhail Alexseev (San Diego State University); Elise Giuliano (Columbia University); Sergiy Kudelia (Baylor University); Oxana Shevel (Tufts University); Oleksandr Sushko (International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine)
Authoritarian Governance and Reform in Russia
Friday, October 9
Dinissa Duvanova (Lehigh University); Vladimir Gel'man (University of Helsinki; European University at Saint Petersburg); Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King's College London); Judyth Twigg (Virginia Commonwealth University)
What's New Under the Sun? Military Affairs in U.S.-Russian Relations
Friday, October 16
Polina Sinovets (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine); Adam Stulberg (Georgia Institute of Technology); Mikhail Troitskiy (Moscow State Institute of International Relations); Dmitry Gorenburg (CNA; Harvard University)
Center-Periphery Politics in Russia: Instability and Adaptation
Friday, October 23
Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg); Stephen Crowley
(Oberlin College); Ekaterina Koldunova (Moscow State Institute of International Relations); Andrei Semenov (Perm State University, Russia)
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.