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Russia is back on the international stage and many wonder what will be Russia’s policies in the coming years. Three outstanding Russia experts will attempt to discuss the possible future scenarios.

Russia 2020: What Scenarios for the Future?

‘State-led, Oil-fuelled Development: How Good is That for Russia?’
Professor Philip Hanson, Professor at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Russian and East European Studies and associate fellow of Chatham House:

‘Russia and the European Union: Partnership, Engagement or Mutual Containment?’
Dr. Roy Allison, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics :

‘The Crisis of Russian Democracy: Factionalism, Sovereignty and the Putin Succession’
Professor Richard Sakwa is head of the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and is an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs:

Book your place now! By phone: 0207 073 1350
By email: box.office(at)ambafrance.org.uk
Entrance: £6
6 March – French Institute in London – 07.30pm to 09.00pm

Professor Richard Sakwa will be one of our distinguished speakers at our next conference Russia 2020: What Scenarios for the Future?, held at the French Institute in London on 6 March 2008. Professor Richard Sakwa is head of the department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and is an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Here is a brief biography of Professor Richard Sakwa:

Prof. Sakwa joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent in 1987, was promoted to a professorship in 1996 and was Head of Department between 2001 and 2

007. While completing his doctorate on Moscow politics during the Civil War (1918-21) he spent a year on a British Council scholarship at Moscow State University (1979-80), and then worked for two years in Moscow in the ‘Mir’ Science and Technology Publishing House. Before moving to Kent he also lectured at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prof. Sakwa is an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Advisory Boards of the
Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow, a member of the Eurasian Political Studies Network and, since September 2002, a member of Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.

Conference Russia 2020: What Scenarios for the Future?
To book your place:
By phone: 0207 073 1350
By email: box.office(at)ambafrance.org.uk
Entrance: £6
6 March – French Institute in London – 07.30pm to 09.00pm

Professor Philip Hanson, Professor at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Russian and East European Studies and associate fellow of Chatham House, will speak at our next conference Russia 2020: What Scenarios for the Future?, held at the French Institute in London on 6 March 2008.

Here is a brief presentation of Professor Philip Hanson’s current and past activities:

Consultant on the Russian and Baltic economies for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxford Analytica. Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 1977; Senior Mellon Fellow, Harvard University, 1986/87; Senior Economic Affairs Officer, UN ECE, 1991-92; Distinguished Fellow, RFE/RL Research Institute, Munich, 1992; Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto, 2000 and (from 2003) Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs Russia and Eurasia Programme. Interested in comparative economic systems, the Soviet and Russian economies, and economics of transition; currently working business-state relations in Russia and on the assessment of Russian economic policies.

Author of The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy (2003); The Consumer in the Soviet Economy; Advertising and Socialism; Trade and Technology in Soviet-Western Relations; Western Economic Statecraft and From Stagnation to Catastroika; co-author, The Comparative Economics of Research, Development and Innovation in East and West. Co-editor, Regional Economic Change in Russia; Alexander Zinoviev as Writer and Thinker and Transformation From Below.

To book your place:
By phone: 0207 073 1350
By email: box.office(at)ambafrance.org.uk
Entrance: £6
6 March – French Institute in London – 07.30pm to 09.00pm