20200824 Minsk and Moscow: Russia's responses to the Belarus crisis

The Russia Strategic Initiative
&
Dr. Mark Galeotti
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Minsk and Moscow: Russia's responses to the Belarus crisis

August 24th, 2020 at 1700CEST/1100EST
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Format: The panelist will present for 20 minutes followed by 40 minutes of Q&A

Agenda

1700-1720CEST/1100-1120EST: Presentation on Minsk and Moscow: Russia's responses to the Belarus crisis

1720-1800CEST/1120-1200EST: Question & Answer Session

Abstract

When Aleksandr Lukashenko so dramatically mishandled the recent elections, he may have doomed his regime but he also created a headache for Moscow. The Kremlin has been caught flat-footed by the new revolution, which has highlighted not just some of the limitations of Russian power, but also divisions within the leadership. How will Moscow respond in the immediate term, and how might the crisis affect wider Russian calculations about its interests and capacities to project power?

Dr. Mark Galeotti Honorary Professor, University College of London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Institute of International Relations Prague Owner, Mayak Consultancy

Dr Mark Galeotti is an Honorary Professor at UCL SSEES, Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI, and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations Prague. He also runs his own consultancy, Mayak Intelligence. He read history at Robinson College Cambridge and took his doctorate in government at the LSE, and has since been Head of History at Keele University, a Senior Research Fellow with the Foreign Office, Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, and a visiting professor at Rutgers-Newark (Newark, NJ), Charles University (Prague), the European University Institute (Florence) and MGIMO (Moscow). A specialist in Russian security and international politics, he is also a prolific author, and his most recent books include A Short History of Russia (2020), We Need To Talk About Putin (2019), Russian Political War (2019), and The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (2018).

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