Putin’s murderous war of aggression, unleashed on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, constitutes a watershed in post-Cold War history. The assault has also been accompanied by an unprecedented tightening of repression in post-Soviet Russia. The government rapidly muzzled all the remaining opposition and destroyed independent media. How can this war, and the regime that started it, be grasped in the global and historical context of the post-Cold War? How much longer will the aggression continue? What will be its political and geopolitical outcomes?

Register below to join us on April 25, 2022 at 11am Pacific for a panel discussion with Ilya Budraitskis, Artemy Magun, Ilya Matveev, and Oxana Timofeeva, who are among the foremost philosophers and political theorists from the ranks of the Russian opposition to the Putin regime. When the war and the new repression began, they had to flee their country to avoid arrest and persecution. Their distinctive perspectives, not often heard either on the right or the left in the West, will shed a unique light on these urgent topics. The webinar will be moderated by Dylan Riley, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and Alexei Yurchak, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.

This event will be streamed online via Zoom. Registrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the event.