The New US Administration and Russia

Join us for the fifth installment of our new speaker series "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm — Conversations With Yevgenia Albats" to hear Susan Glasser and Peter Baker speak with our eminent host about the new US administration and foreign policy towards Russia.

Few people in Washington understand the ins and outs of the White House decision-making process better than Susan Glasser, a columnist with the New Yorker, and Peter Baker, the Senior White House correspondent with the New York Times, who covered five US administrations.  Separately and together, they have been writing about Russia and Ukraine for two decades. They served four years in Moscow as co-bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin, culminating in a book titled Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution. 

It seems this is the first presidential election in the US when the question, Who Lost Russia?, is no longer on the opponent's agendas. Putin, once the West's sweetheart, was pronounced as evil after the whole-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, whereas Russia turned into a pariah state on par with North Korea and Iran. However, it is a nuclear state with one of the most enormous arsenals of nuclear weapons on the face of the earth. Russia is also a close ally of China, and the latter is in fierce political and economic competition with the United States. What policy is the new US administration going to choose towards Russia? Will it be Reagan's "evil empire" style or Nixon's policy of Détente? 

These are but some of the questions to be discussed in what promises to be an in-depth, informative conversation. Please explore the other planned talks in the series in our Events listing.