The Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia and the Russia Program at GW cordially invite you to:

War, the Putin Regime,

and Russian Public Opinion

Friday, January 19, 2024

9:00am - 1:30pm

Elliott School of International Affairs, Lindner Commons

1957 E St NW | Washington, DC 20052

This half-day conference will bring together leading specialists on public opinion in Russia to discuss what we know and do not know about public opinion in Russia today. Among the topics covered will be key insights from a unique large-scale academic survey that interviewed Russians nationwide just before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and reinterviewed those same respondents in October 2023 to understand how their political views changed in the intervening nearly two years of war. Speakers will address rallying, defections, changing political behavior in Russia, and the relationship between support for Putin and support for his war, as well as findings on survey reliability in today’s Russia and broader questions about how we should think about Russian public opinion.

Tentative Agenda

Participants

Timothy Frye

Columbia University

Samuel Greene

Center for European Policy Analysis

Ivan Grek

The George Washington University

Henry Hale

The George Washington University

Maria Lipman

The George Washington University

Danielle Lussier

Grinnell College

John Reuter

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Graeme Robertson

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bryn Rosenfeld

Cornell University

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (TBC)

King’s College London

David Szakonyi

The George Washington University

Kateryna Tertytchnaya

University of Oxford

This event is on the record and open to the media.

The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)

Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052

Tel (202) 994-6340 / Fax (202) 994-5436 / Email ieresgwu@gwu.edu