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 journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker speak with our eminent host about the new U.S. 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 for the New York Times, who have covered five U.S. 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. 

In this U.S. presidential election, the question "Who lost Russia?" is not on the opponents' agendas. Putin, once accepted by the West, was pronounced evil after Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and 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 on 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 U.S. administration going to choose toward 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 series's other planned talks in our Events listing.