This conversation, with Alexandra Prokopenko of the Carnegie Endowment, focuses on Prokopenko's recent book, From Sovereigns to Servants: How the War against Ukraine Reshaped Russia's Elite, a study of decision-making at the very top of the Russain government and the patterns of loyalty that enable this decision-making and allow it to be implemented, a history of Russian governance from the 1990s to the present moment.

A conversation with Hanna Notte, a Kennan Institute non-resident fellow, focusing on her book, We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West, a study of Rusian foriegn policy as it extends beyond Europe and the United States and of the global dynamic behind Russia's war against Ukraine.