Speakers

Research Fellow at the International Centre for Defence and Security

Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Head of the Socio-Cultural Research Department at Levada Center
Moderator

Programme Coordinator at the School of Civic Education
What can be said about the current state of Russian society? Do these observations offer any glimpse into Russia’s future? Can Russian society awaken from its lethargic sleep and challenge its leadership, or is Russia doomed to slide further towards totalitarianism?
“What man believes is.” (“во что человек верит, то и есть”, commonly but erroneously quoted as “Man is what he believes.”)
Note-book of Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekhov (c. 1890)