Södertörn Roundtable: Where is Russia going?

On 14 December, 2022, the MoveMeRU project PI Félix Krawatzek took part in a Roundtable discussion, organized by the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) at Södertörn University.

About the event

The world situation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been described as the start of a new cold war. But what do we know about Russia's intentions, what does the Russian population think and feel, and who does Russia think it is really at war with? 

Four researchers have been invited to the panel, all with different perspectives on what is happening in Russia right now and why:

Ilya Viktorov, researcher in economic history at the Department of Economic History and International Relations - Stockholm University,
Matthew Blackburn, researcher in nationalism at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies - Uppsala University,
Yulia Gradskova, Associate Professor of History at Södertörn University and
Felix Krawatzek, political scientist, from Youth and Generational Change at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOIS) in Berlin.

The thoughts of a roundtable come from the fact that the questions surrounding Russia's invasion have grown in number over the past months, but the answers have not. How should we understand what Russia is doing and where is it headed?

The discussion will touch on a wide range of topical issues, based primarily on what do we know and what can we know. Is there an internal division and what does it look like, how can we understand the political and social processes during the war, what does the Russian population think?

More information available here: Roundtable: Vart är Ryssland på väg? - Södertörns högskola (Swedish only)