Russia: what’s next?
Author/editor: Richard Rigby (Chair)
Year published: 2015
Issue no.: 3
Volume no.: 6
Abstract
ANUCES Roundtable Summary
On 23 June 2015 the Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies hosted a public roundtable to discuss current developments in Russia and consider the influences on future policy under Putin.
The roundtable was chaired by Harry Rigby’s son, Professor Richard Rigby, Executive Director of the ANU China Institute. Professor Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University) outlined the current economic situation in Russia. Associate Professor Stephen Fortescue explained the various players contributing to policy making in Russia at the moment, and Dr Robert Horvath argued that the past two years have seen a fundamental transformation of the Russian state. This Briefing Paper consists of contributions from each panelist with some additional notes.
Outlook for the Russian Economy - Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University
Policy making in Russia today: Who's at the table - Stephen Fortescue, University of New South Wales
The consolidation od Authoritarianism in Russia 2012-2014 - Robert Horvath, La Trobe University
The roundtable was the second in the Rigby Lecture Series for 2015. The series was established in March 2013 in honour of the late Professor T.H. ‘Harry’ Rigby. A graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and London, Professor Rigby worked at the ANU from 1958 until his retirement in 1996. By the 1970s he had won a reputation as a leading authority on the Soviet Union, and he was the main force driving the ANU’s emergence as a centre of Soviet and Russian studies of global standing. He was among the very few who, in the early 1980s, foresaw fundamental change looming in the Soviet Union, and he remains Australia’s foremost scholar of Russia.
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