View source for Project Connect: Putin's Praetorians: The Evolving Role of the National Guard and their Capacity to Control the Streets

'''Date:''' July 2nd, 2024 at 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT  
'''Platform:''' Cisco Webex Events  

=== Link to Video Recording ===  
[https://eucom.webex.com/eucom/ldr.php?RCID=9fac1250256c23a51739bf04ac75ee98 Link to Video Recording]  
'''Recording Password:''' 5Ryq5Mq9  

=== Details ===  
RSI will be joined by Dr. Mark Galeotti and Dr. Anna Arutunyan to discuss their 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, Roscosmos's Uran, the defense ministry's own, and others.  

=== Biography ===  

==== Dr. Mark Galeotti ====  
[[File:Photo_Mark_Galeotti.jpg|thumb|200px|Mark Galeotti]]  
'''Title:''' Director  
'''Affiliation:''' Mayak Intelligence  

Dr. Mark Galeotti 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.  

He 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 Arutunyan ====  
[[File:Photo_Anna_Arutunyan.jpg|thumb|200px|Anna Arutunyan]]  
'''Title:''' Associate Director  
'''Affiliation:''' 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.  

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.  

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