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International Centre for Defence and Security
LMC 2019

A State of Hopeless Confusion: Russia and the US

Russia, USA

Speakers

Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Director, Transatlantic Security Program, Center for New American Security, Washington D.C.

Olga Oliker

Director of Russia and Central Asia Program, International Crisis Group

Christian Schmidt

Member of the Bundestag, Germany

Dmitry Suslov
Dmitry Suslov

Deputy Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University – High School of Economics, Russia

Moderator

Jill Dougherty

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

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