Join NYU's Jordan Center for a lecture exploring current Russian attitudes to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the potential for a peaceful resolution.

Speaker:

Timothy Colton, the Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies at Harvard University

Contemporary Russia’s political system seems stable to the point of stagnation, but at the same time under pressures for change and, in the eyes of many in its leadership, fragile. President Vladimir Putin remains popular despite deteriorating economic conditions, and despite the shock of the violent Ukraine crisis that began with the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and continues to the present day. In the 2017 Jordan Center Distinguished lecture, Professor Timothy J. Colton of Harvard University, one of the nation’s foremost experts on Russia and the region, will address the multiple and complex ways in which the imbroglio surrounding Ukraine has impacted Russian public life, paying attention to elite politics, public opinion, and linkages between the international and domestic agendas. Professor Colton will also assess the potential for a resolution or, alternatively, an exacerbation, of the Ukraine crisis, and of what this would mean for Russia, its neighbors, and the world.

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