Anna Arutunyan: OPPOSITION IN RUSSIA - A FUTURE WITHOUT PUTIN

Cathrin Kahlweit in Conversation with Anna Arutunyan OPPOSITION IN RUSSIA – A FUTURE WITHOUT PUTIN   There are not many Russia experts with an expertise as big as Anna Arutunyan. She was born in Russia, raised in the United States and then went back to the country of her birth as an analyst, author and journalist. Anna covered Russian politics as a reporter for The Moscow News. She served as Russia’s senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, is a Kennan Institute Fellow and is being printed in USA Today, Foreign Affairs and other renowned publications. Anna Arutunyan is also the author of several books on Russia, including „The Putin Mystique“ on Russia’s war in Ukraine and „Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine“. Currently she is working on „Rebel Russia”: an exploration of the Russian rebel and dissident movement, and how it has shaped the govenment. Together with her famous british husband Mark Galeotti she has, amongst other publications, written „Downfall; Prigozhin, Putin and the fight for a new Russia“. At the Kreisky-Forum she will talk with the publicist and expert for Eastern Europe and Ukraine, Cathrin Kahlweit, about the way, the Russian autocracy works, how it might be threatened from inside and destabilised from outside. How influencal, if at all, is the Russian opposition, and how far will Wladimir Putin carry the onslought on Ukraine and the West?   Anna Arutunyan, Russian American journalist, analyst, and author. She is a global fellow at the Wilson Center. Cathrin Kahlweit, Journalistin und Publizistin