Event

This year’s conference will focus on the domestic situation in Russia and examine developments in state-society relations, the military and the Russian economy after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 

This event is now fully booked.

In the final panel, we will discuss how Russia’s neighbours in Europe consider developments in Russia and how these influence the security situation in Northern Europe after Sweden and Finland joined NATO.

The conference will be streamed to our YouTube channel (no need to register for digital attendance).

09.00 Welcome and short introduction 

• Senior Research Fellow Kristin Fjæstad, NUPI

09.05–10.20 PANEL 1: State-society relations

• Senior Research Fellow Margarita Zavadskaya (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
• Professor Jeremy Morris (Aarhus University)
• Dr Svetlana Erpyleva (University of Bremen and PS labs)
• Research Professor Julie Wilhelmsen (NUPI)
• Moderator: TBA 

10.20 – 10.40 COFFEE BREAK

10.40 – 11.50 PANEL 2: Military and economy

• Dr Kirill Shamiev (European Council of Foreign Relations)
• Principal Scientist Cecilie Sendstad (The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment)
• Senior Research Fellow Håvard Bækken (Institute of Defense Studies)
• Moderator: TBA

11.50-12.40 LUNCH

12.40-13.30 Keynote: Professor Timothy Frye (Columbia University)

13.40-14.55: PANEL 3: Neighbouring states and their policies towards Russia

• Research Fellow Minna Ålander (Finnish Institute of International Affairs)
• Senior Policy Fellow Kadri Liik (ECFR)
• Professor Zbigniew Pisarski (Casimir Pulaski Foundation)
• TBA
• Moderator: Research Professor Jakub M. Godzimirski (NUPI)

This panel is organised as part of the NORPOLFACTOR project.

14.55: Final remarks

15.00: End

Contributors

Margarita Zavadskaya

Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Jeremy Morris

Professor at Aarhus University

Dr Svetlana Erpyleva

Researcher at Public Sociology Laboratory and the University of Bremen

Dr Kirill Shamiev

Visiting Fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations

Cecilie Sendstad

Principal Scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment

Håvard Bækken

Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies

Minna Ålander

Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations

Zbigniew Pisarski

Professor at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation

Timothy Frye

Professor at Columbia University

Kristin Fjæstad

Senior Research Fellow, head of the Research group on Russia, Asia and international trade

Julie Wilhelmsen

Research Professor

Jakub M. Godzimirski

Research Professor

Related projects

Research project

2023 - 2024 (Ongoing)

Norway and Poland as actors in a changing security landscape (NORPOLFACTOR)

The aim of the project is to develop enhanced knowledge of the security-related challenges, risks and threats Poland and Norway face in their strategic environment in the aftermath of the Russian inva...

• Defence
• Security policy
• NATO
• Foreign policy
• Russia and Eurasia
• The Arctic
• The Nordic countries
• Conflict
• Energy
• The EU

• Defence
• Security policy
• NATO
• Foreign policy
• Russia and Eurasia
• The Arctic
• The Nordic countries
• Conflict
• Energy
• The EU