Description

A panel of experts on Russian politics will discuss the importance of Alexei  Navalny, his killing and the trajectory of Russian politics and opposition  after his demise.

Brendan McElroy

is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research explores the complementary processes of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on the genesis of representative and corporative institutions, their evolution, and their long-term consequences for state building and economic development.

Graeme Robertson

is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. His work focuses on political protest and regime support in authoritarian regimes.

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova

is Professor of Russian Politics and Director of King’s Russia Institute, King’s College London, a political scientist and an expert on Russian politics with the research agenda focused on political economy, social psychology and public opinion, authoritarian governance and legitimation, and centre-regional relations.

Lucan Way

is the Distinguished Professor of Democracy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on global patterns of democracy and dictatorship.

Nikolai Petrov

is a consulting fellow on the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London and professor in the political science department at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Yevgenia Albats

is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author, and radio host. Since 2007 she has been the political editor and then editor-in-chief and CEO of The New Times, a Moscow-based, Russian-language independent political weekly.