20200331 Putin and the Pandemic

In light of the current global state, the RSI is hosting a virtual panel to gain insights into how Putin's Russia is dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic to governance, the economy, and global objectives. Join us as we hear from leading experts in the economic, foreign relations, and information spaces from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Foreign Policy Research Institute, and RAND.

The panel contains two sessions. Each session is an hour-long, where panel members will have 10-15 minutes to brief their focus area, leaving 15 minutes for Q&A at the end.

When: Begins 1400 CEST/0800 EST/1200 UTC. The webinar will open 5 minutes before the start of Session 1.

Where: Zoom Webinar

Agenda

Session 1: 1400-1450 CEST/0800-0850 EST - COVID-19 Domestic Impacts to Russia:

Marta Kepe, Focus Area: Russia's Domestic Information Operations Campaign
Chris Miller, Focus Area: Impacts on Russia's Defense Industrial Base

Intermission 1450-1500 CEST/0850-0900 EST

Session 2: 1500-1600 CEST/0900-1000 EST - COVID-19 Impacts to Russia Abroad

Dara Massicot, Focus Area: Russia's Foreign Information Operations Campaign
Andrew Weiss, Focus Area: Impact on Russia's Middle East Activities
Eugene Rumer, Focus Area: Impact on Russia's Relations with China

About the Presenters:

Marta Kepe

Marta Kepe is a defense analyst at the RAND Corporation. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She focuses on defense policy and planning, military logistics, defense industry, and technology as well as NATO and EU cooperation.

Before joining the RAND Corporation, she worked for RAND Europe, the Latvian Ministry of Defence, NATO Advisory Team in Kosovo, the United Nations, and the National War College. She received her M.A. in security studies from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

Source: RAND Corporation

Dara Massicot

Dara Massicot is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. Before joining RAND, she served as a senior analyst for Russian military capabilities at the Department of Defense.

Her work at RAND focuses on security issues in Russia and Eurasia, such as deterrence, strategic stability, Russian military modernization and combat operations, and Russian national security policy. Her interests include force posture, force planning, conventional arms control, and grand strategy. She received her M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College's College of Naval Command and Staff in Newport, Rhode Island.

Source: RAND Corporation

Chris Miller

Chris Miller is the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He is also an Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. His research examines Russian politics, foreign policy, and economics. His most recent book is Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia, and was reviewed by The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, and the Times Literary Supplement.

He is also the author of The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, published in 2016. He is a regular contributor to publications such as Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and The American Interest. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and his BA from Harvard University.

Source: Foreign Policy Research Institute

Eugene Rumer

Eugene Rumer is a senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program.

Before joining Carnegie, Rumer was the national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council from 2010 to 2014. Earlier, he held research appointments at the National Defense University, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the RAND Corporation. Rumer has also served on the National Security Council staff and at the State Department, taught at Georgetown University and the George Washington University, and published widely. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MA from Georgetown University, and his BA from Boston University.

Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Andrew Weiss

Andrew S. Weiss is the James Family Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research in Washington and Moscow on Russia and Eurasia.

Weiss’s career has spanned both the public and private sectors. Before joining Carnegie, he was director of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Russia and Eurasia and executive director of the RAND Business Leaders Forum. He previously served as director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council staff, as a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and as a policy assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush. He received his M.I.A. and BA from Columbia University.

Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Connection Instructions: Use the above registration link to register through Zoom. The webinar can be viewed either through the downloaded software (non-government computer), in the browser through Chrome (government computer), or apps for both Android and Apple platforms.

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