Measuring National Power: Is Vladimir Putin’s Russia in Decline and Compared to Whom? (in English)

The Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies is pleased to announce a lecture by Simon Saradzhyan, founding director of the Russia Matters Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Mr. Saradzhyan also helps advance the center’s U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism. His research interests include international arms control, counterterrorism, and foreign, defense, and security policies of Russia and other post-Soviet states and their relations with great powers. Prior to joining the Belfer Center in 2008 as a full-time research fellow, Saradzhyan had worked as a researcher, consultant and journalist in Russia for 15 years.