Join us for a meeting of the New York-Russia Public Policy Series, co-hosted by the Harriman Institute at Columbia University and the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. In this first event of the academic year, our panelists will discuss the results and importance of Russia’s Duma elections for parliament held on September 19, 2021.
The ruling United Russia party is widely expected to maintain its majority in Parliament, even though it is was polling at its lowest level of support among Russian voters in over a decade prior to the vote. At the same time, the Russian government has been accused of cracking down on prominent members of the political opposition—including anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny and members of his network—as well as weakening the capacity of domestic watchdogs to monitor the election. A cross-professional panel of leading scholars of Russian domestic politics and journalists will discuss these controversies and likely repercussions of the vote.
This event is supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Speakers
Jake Cordell, Business Reporter at The Moscow Times
Felix Light, Reporter at The Moscow Times
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Professor of Political Science at Russia Institute, King’s College London
Regina Smyth, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University
David Szakonyi, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University; co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective
Moderated by:
Alexander Cooley, Director of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University
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