After more than nine months of warfare in Ukraine, there are many questions concerning the status of politics and society in Russia. Join the CBEES Roundtable online and on-site to explore the areas covering politics, society, economics, and possible future outcomes!

Media occasionally reports on anti-war protests, inner splits within the power elite or other forms of opposition, but how can we understand the larger picture of Russia's political and social processes in the face of war? And what can we actually know -- is this Putin's war or Kremlin's? What kind of support does the war enjoy in Russian society? Is there any opposition?
Furthermore, what are the economic and political consequences of the sanctions against the Russian elites and society? Do they seem to have the intended effects?

CBEES has invited a few prominent scholars to discuss the current situation in Russia and possible future scenarios.

If you cannot join the event on-site, please register below for online webcasting.

Outline and speakers:

Opening remarks:

Per Bolin, Director of the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) and Professor in History, Södertörn University.

Speakers:

• Ilya Viktorov: "Russian financial markets after February 2022: de-globalization and adjustment to new macroeconomic reality".
  Ilya Viktorov is a Research fellow at the Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University.

• Matthew Blackburn: "Managing Stability and Waging War: inner-elite unity and delivering normality before and after mobilisation".
  Matthew Blackburn is a visiting research fellow at the University of Warsaw and a researcher at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University.

• Yulia Gradskova: "Traditional values" – new meanings and resistances in the context of the war
  Yulia Gradskova is a Research Leader at CBEES, Associate Professor in History, PI in the project "Maternity in the time of 'traditional values' and femonationalism (supported by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies).

• Felix Krawatzek: "Young Russians and the war in Ukraine"
  Felix Krawatzek is the Head of Research Cluster: Youth and Generational Change at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOIS) in Berlin.