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'''Date:''' | '''Date:''' June 25th, 2024 at 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT | ||
'''Platform:''' Cisco Webex Events | '''Platform:''' Cisco Webex Events | ||
=== Link to Video Recording === | === Link to Video Recording === | ||
[https://eucom.webex.com/eucom/ldr.php?RCID= | [https://eucom.webex.com/eucom/ldr.php?RCID=6f930d95882b1dd22c1e75e7b28e2a37 Link to Video Recording] | ||
'''Recording Password:''' | '''Recording Password:''' HgzJT5eK | ||
=== Details === | === Details === | ||
RSI will be joined by Dr. Mark Galeotti | RSI will be joined by Dr. Mark Galeotti, Dr. Anna Arutunyan, and Dr. Pavel Baev to discuss their most recent RSI-sponsored research, ''Putin's Praetorians: The Evolving Role of the National Guard and their Capacity to Control the Streets.'' | ||
The discussion will address the | The discussion will address the changing role and capacities of the National Guard (Rosgvardiya), especially as a result of the Ukraine War and new political realities. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
==== Dr. Pavel Baev ==== | |||
[[File:Photo_Pavel_Baev.jpg|thumb|200px|Pavel Baev]] | |||
'''Title:''' Research Professor | |||
'''Affiliation:''' Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) | |||
Dr. Pavel Baev is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), as well as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington DC), a Senior Research Associate at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI, Paris), and a Senior Associate Researcher at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI, Milan). | |||
He graduated from Moscow State University (MA in Political and Economic Geography) in 1979 and received his PhD from the USA & Canada Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987. His main areas of expertise are the transformation of the Russian strategic landscape. | |||
=== Additional Resources === | === Additional Resources === | ||
* '''[[Main Page#Calendar|Current Calendar]]''' | * '''[[Main Page#Calendar|Current Calendar]]''' | ||
* '''[[RSI Research|All RSI Research]]''' | * '''[[RSI Research|All RSI Research]]''' | ||
Latest revision as of 14:31, 11 August 2025
Date: June 25th, 2024 at 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT Platform: Cisco Webex Events
Link to Video Recording
Link to Video Recording Recording Password: HgzJT5eK
Details
RSI will be joined by Dr. Mark Galeotti, Dr. Anna Arutunyan, and Dr. Pavel Baev to discuss their most recent RSI-sponsored research, Putin's Praetorians: The Evolving Role of the National Guard and their Capacity to Control the Streets.
The discussion will address the changing role and capacities of the National Guard (Rosgvardiya), especially as a result of the Ukraine War and new political realities.
Biography
Dr. 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
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.
Dr. Pavel Baev
Title: Research Professor Affiliation: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Dr. Pavel Baev is a Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), as well as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution (Washington DC), a Senior Research Associate at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI, Paris), and a Senior Associate Researcher at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI, Milan).
He graduated from Moscow State University (MA in Political and Economic Geography) in 1979 and received his PhD from the USA & Canada Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1987. His main areas of expertise are the transformation of the Russian strategic landscape.