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International Centre for Defence and Security
LMC 2015

Russian Society: Fertile Ground for a Noxious Regime?

Russia

Speakers

Alexey Levinson
Alexey Levinson

Head of the Socio-Cultural Research Department, Levada Center

Vladimir Milov

Founding Chairman and Member of the Board, ‘Democratic Choice’ Movement, Russia

Masha Gessen

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Artemy Troitsky

Russian journalist

Moderator

Kadri Liik
Kadri Liik

Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations

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