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RSI will be joined by Dr. Mark Galeotti, and Dr. Anna Arutunyan to discuss his most recent RSI sponsored research, "Prigozhin's Children-The New Wave of Russian PMCs and Implications for the Unity of Command" The discussion will address the practical roles of the new wave of PMCs both in Ukraine and in wider power projection, as well as what this presages for future command and control. The new PMCs include those generated or supported by corporations such as Gazprom's Plamya, Potok and Fakel and Roscosmos's Uran, the defense ministry's own, and others.
Biographies
Dr. Mark GaleottiDirector, Mayak Intelligence
Dr. Mark Galeott is the executive director of Mayak Intelligence Ltd, as well as an Honorary Professor at University College London and a Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and the Council on Geostrategy. He read history at Cambridge and took his doctorate in government at the London School of Economics and has since been an academic at Keele and New York Universities, a Senior Research Fellow with the UK Foreign Office, and head of the Centre for European Security at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His most recent books include The Vory: Russia’s super mafia (Yale, 2018), We Need to Talk About Putin (Ebury, 2019), Russian Political War (Routledge, 2019), Putin’s Wars: from Chechnya to Ukraine (Osprey Bloomsbury, 2022) and Downfall: Putin, Prigozhin and the new Struggle for Russia’s Future (Penguin, 2024, with Anna Arutunyan).
Dr. Anna ArutunyanAssociate Director of Mayak Intelligence
Dr. Anna Arutunyan is the associate director of Mayak Intelligence, based in Moscow until February 2022 and now in the UK. Her work has appeared in the European Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, The Spectator, and Jane’s Intelligence Review, and she is the author of four books on Russia, including The Putin Mystique (2014), Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine (2022), and Downfall: Putin, Prigozhin and the new Struggle for Russia’s Future (Penguin, 2024, with Mark Galeotti). Anna is a global fellow of the Kennan Institute and has worked as an analyst for International Crisis Group, as a correspondent for USA Today and as the news editor at the Moscow News.