Invited Talks

(selected talks since 2020)

• • September 20, 2024, the Brookings Institution, “The Inaugural Tony Judt Lecture on Europe: Charles King on Political Ideas in the 21st Century,” Washington DC
  • June 24, 2024, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “The State of Russia’s Defense Industry After Two Years of War and Sanctions,” Washington DC
  • January 30, 2024, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Book Talk with Dr. Maria Snegovaya: “When Left Moves Right,” Washington DC
  • July 7, 2023, Atlantic Council Panel, “Discussion on Russia’s Political Trajectory,” Washington DC
  • Jun 26, 2023, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Prigozhin’s Uprising,” Washington DC
  • May 5, 2023, Friends of European Russia Panel, “Do Western Sanctions on Russia Work?,” Brussels, Belgium
  • March 1, 2023, United States Institute of Peace Panel, “The Implications Of Russia’s War against Ukraine after a Year,” Washington DC
  • February 28, 2023, University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House “The War in Ukraine: One Year On,” Philadelphia, PA
  • February 15, 2023, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “The War in Ukraine at One Year,” Washington DC
  • January 19, 2023, Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Sanctions and the Russian Economy,” Washington DC
  • June 2, 2022, GLOBSEC 2022 Bratislava Forum, “Fallen Villain,” Bratislava, Slovakia
  • March 30, 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies Europe, Russia, and Eurasia’s Virtual Panel, “Russia’s Crackdown on Independent Media and Access to Information Online,” Washington DC
  • February 24, 2022, Friends of European Russia Forum at the European Parliament, “Russia after Putin,” Brussels, Belgium
  • December 10, 2021, The Sakharov Center: “Russian Realities: State, Society, Civil Society,” Moscow, Russia
  • November 29, 2021, The Harriman Institute and Jordan Center Panel: “After the Biden-Putin Summit: The State of US-Russia Relations One Year into the Biden Administration”, New York, NY
  • September 9, 2021, Carnegie Russia: “Will the Change of Generations Lead to the Modernization of the Country?,” Moscow, Russia
  • September 9, 2021, The Sakharov Center: “Political Autumn 2021: Turkmenization of Russia?,” Moscow, Russia
  • April 30, 2021, American Enterprise Institute, “Russian Hybrid Warfare in Europe: Lessons for the US,” Washington DC
  • March 10, 2021, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, “Navalny’s Phenomenon” (with David Satter and Brian Whitmore), Washington DC
  • February 11, 2021, Presentation at the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), “Guns to Butter: Economic Concerns and Policy Preferences in Russia,” the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
  • January 26, 2021, Friends of European Russia Forum at the European Parliament, “How the West Should Deal with Russia: Transatlantic Approach,” Brussels, Belgium
  • December 16, 2020, The Nemtsov Forum Rountable: “New Russian Regional Protest,” online discussion
  • October 8, 2020, Simone Veil Talk at Jean Monnet Centre Montréal, “How the Left-Wing Parties in Post-Communist Europe Followed the EU’s Advice to Reform and Lost,” Montreal, Canada
  • October 7, 2020, PPE Talk at Virginia Tech, “Has the Populist Right Replaced the Left? The Demise of the Center-Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe,” Blacksburg, VA
  • September 15, 2020, Kennan Institute’s and CEPA’s Virtual Panel, “Civic and Political Participation of Russian Youth,” Washington, DC
  • June 26, 2020, Friends of European Russia Forum at the European Parliament, “Situation and Developments in Russia in the Run-Up to the Vote on Constitutional Amendments” Brussels, Belgium
  • May 27, 2020, CEPA’s and Kennan Institute’s Virtual Panel, “Society’s View of Legal Protections in Russia,” Washington, DC
  • May 12, 2020, CEPA’s Virtual Panel, “Oil, Guns, and Imperialism: Do Energy Prices Influence Russian Foreign Policy Behavior?” Washington, DC
  • April 16, 2020, CEPA’s Virtual Panel, “Society’s View of Doing Business in Russia,” Washington, DC
  • March 6, 2020, The Johns Hopkins SAIS European and Eurasian Studies Program and the Foreign Policy Institute, “The Illiberal Thought Collective: Central Europe and Beyond,”  Washington, DC
  • January 30, 2020, East Stratcom Task Force, “Disinfo Horizon: Responding to Future Threats,” Brussels, Belgium