Angelina Flood

1 month ago | belfercenter.org | Barry R. Posen |Simon Saradzhyan |Ivan Arreguín-Toft |Angelina Flood

Online & In-Person Seminar Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students One of the main targets of Russian military assault on Ukraine has been its energy grid. This included massive consecutive missile and drone strikes against Ukraine’s energy transmission and generation infrastructure, cyberattacks, and the takeover and occupation of Ukraine’s (and Europe’s) largest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhia.

May 30, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Andrei Yakovlev |Angelina Flood |Andrey Pertsev |Simon Saradzhyan

The events of recent months clearly show that, contrary to all previous statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has set a course for reviewing privatization deals and, more broadly, for the redistribution of property in the Russian economy. There are three plausible explanations for what is driving this process, which rather complement each other:1. It is traditional for Putin’s Russia to use “power resources” to redistribute private property. 2.

May 10, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Angelina Flood |Andrey Pertsev |Alexander Gabuev |Conor Cunningham

This week on May 7, Vladimir Putin was sworn in as president of Russia for a fifth time. In his inauguration speech, the Russian autocrat—who seems determined to wrestle the crown of Russia’s longest ruler from Josef Stalin—vowed to “continue to build a multipolar world and an equal and indivisible security system…together with our partners in Eurasian integration” [aka China and Russia’s post-Soviet neighbors]. In the 705-word address, Putin – who has been running Russia since the evening of Dec.

May 1, 2024 | russiamatters.org | Angelina Flood |Andrey Pertsev |Alexander Gabuev |Conor Cunningham

Russia Matters founding director Simon Saradzhyan sat down with Fiona Hill, former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the U.S. National Security Council from 2017 to 2019, on April 5 to ponder questions on Russia and its war in Ukraine prepared by RM staff and student associates.1 Hill is currently a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers, as well...

Nov 16, 2023 | russiamatters.org | Simon Saradzhyan |Angelina Flood

Join Russia Matters and the Davis Center for a book talk by Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In his new book, “Getting Russia Right,” Graham offers a practical vision of U.S.-Russia relations. He identifies the blind spots that prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response.