Russian and Eurasian Studies | Events

April 23, 2008
Lunch with Dr. Vladimir Socor, Senior Fellow and Senior Analyst, Jamestown Foundation
"Russia and NATO After the Bucharest Summit"

April 2, 2008
Lunch with Toby T. Gati, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs, National Security Council; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Senior International Adviser, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
"How to Do Business in Russia?"

March 28, 2008
Lunch with Thomas Graham, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs at the National Security Council; Senior Director at the Kissinger Associates
"Is Russia Entering the Post-Putin Era? Fresh Impressions of Russia after the Elections"

February 20, 2008
Brown bag lunch with Dr.Leon Aron, Director of Russian Studies, American Enterprise Institute
"The Credos of Glasnost. Ideals and Ideas that Shaped the 1987-1991 Russian Revolution"

February 6, 2008
Lunch with Matthew Bryza, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
"Russian Energy as a Foreign Policy Tool"

January 23, 2008
Lunch with Tibor Navracsics, Head of Fidesz  Hungarian Civic Union Parliamentary Group
"Russian Energy and Central Europe"

November 14, 2007
Brown bag lunch with Ambassador Christian Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
"Current Challenges to Democratization in the OSCE Region: Election Observation and Its Enemies"

November 7, 2007
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Nikolay Petrov, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moscow Center, Co-chairman of programs on society and regions, internal politics and political institutions and civil society
"Pre-election Struggles among Russia's Siloviki" (The word "siloviki" is derived from the phrase silovye struktury (force structures), a reference to the armed services, law enforcement bodies, and intelligence agencies that wield the coercive power of the state. In literal usage, a silovik (plural: siloviki) is a current or former official from any of these government bodies)

October 10, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Professor, Georgetown University
"Can Russia Avoid a Road to Death? Contemporary Issues of Russian Health, Demography and the Military"

September 26, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
"Russia and the West: A New Cold War?"

September 17, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Program at Harvard University, Senior Fellow at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
"Islam and Separatism in Russia: Old and New Challenges in the North Caucasus"

September 12, 2007
Russia-Eurasia Forum
Brown bag lunch with Dr. Peter Reddaway, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
"Can the Kremlin Control the Election Cycle? The Politics of the Upcoming Elections for the Duma and the Presidency"