Origins of the War: A Question of Chronology
On September 9, Kennan Institute Director Michael Kimmage will join the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan for The Origins of the War in Ukraine: A Question of Chronology.
Kimmage will consider three possible points of origin for the war and examine how the chronology we choose shapes our explanations of it. The lecture will also explore the difficulty of conducting chronological analysis without solid empirical evidence, a challenge extending from academic research on Russia to intelligence analysis and policymaking.
Maduro's Fall and Russia's Response: A Conversation
Hanna Notte, Kennan Institute Non-Resident Fellow, and Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, address the implications of the recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela, focusing on what they may be for Russia's global foreign policy and for Russia's approach to the war in Ukraine. What are these new notions of global order being ushered in by the Trump administration, and what opportunities and challenges will Russia derive from these new (or not-so-new) notions?
Kennan Conversations: The Russian Press and Putin
A conversation with two journalists, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Bologan, taking a close look at their recent book, Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation, which explores the evolution of the news media in Putin’s Russia and the increasingly repressive relationship between state and media after 2011.
Kennan Conversations: Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies
A book talk with Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva about their new book, co-authored with David Foglesong, Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies, a sweeping history of U.S.-Russian relations across the centuries.
Artwork by Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky