Annexation of Crimea: a long winter in Russia

The Centre’s new publication A successful failure: Russia after Crime(a) was a starting point to a discussion on the situation of Russia three years after the annexation of Crimea. Speakers wondered how the Russian government and society changed after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. What is the Russian information policy? And why – despite the growing economic hardships – Russians support the Kremlin's authorities? Answers to these and other questions were provided by our guests: Fabian Burkhardt, Igor Grecki, and Olga Irisova. The discussion was led by Ernest Wyciszkiewicz.

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Participants:

Fabian Burkhardt is a member of the editorial board of the Intersection analytical portal. A political scientist at the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, a graduate of the Graduate School for East and South East European Studies in Munich. Burkhardt is a scholarship holder at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin.

Igor Grecki is a Professor at the State University of St. Petersburg. His research interests include Russian foreign policy towards post-Soviet countries, international relations in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia-Poland and Russia-Ukraine relations. Grecki is a scholarship holder at several universities in Germany and Poland. Author of a monograph devoted to foreign influence on the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.

Olga Irisova is a politics and media analyst, editor of the Intersection analytical portal. One of the authors and editors of the book A successful failure: Russia after Crime(a). She specializes in topics related to the Kremlin's information policy and methods of manipulating the public. Irisova is a graduate of the European Association of the Schools of Political Studies at the Council of Europe.

Ernest Wyciszkiewicz is the Director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding. Editor-in-chief of the Intersection analytical portal. Previously, he was the coordinator of the program on energy security, climate change and international law at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. In the years 2003-2008 he was the secretary of the Russian quarterly journal Evropa. An author of many analytical studies, expert opinions and, articles in the field of energy policy of the Russian Federation and the European Union, relations between the European Union and Russia, the foreign policy of the Russian Federation and international climate negotiations.

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