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Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 24, 2025 to attend this event.

This conference presents and discusses the first public findings from a project supported by Columbia’s Harriman Institute and the Carnegie Corporation of New York on “Russia After Putin.” Rather than trying to predict how or when Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually leave the halls of Kremlin power, our goal is to assess what will happen inside Russia in the aftermath of his inevitable departure, and what the implications will be for Russia and the world. This conference brings together top academic analysts with deep knowledge of particular sectors of the Russian political system, to think extensively about what kinds of actions people from those sectors would likely take to further their own interests and preferences in that future situation—and then to think together about potential interaction effects between those political sectors.

Conference Program

10:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks

• Valentina Izmirlieva

Opening Remarks

• Kimberly Marten and Elise Giuliano

10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Panel 1: Kremlin-Adjacent Actors

Discussant: Irina Busygina

• Putin’s Out, What About Putinism? Scenarios for the Russian Orthodox Church in a Post-Putin Russia
  • Alijcia Curanovic
• The Political Economy Model of Putin’s Russia: Key Elements, Actors and Scenarios of Transformation as a Result of the War with Ukraine
  • Andrei Yakovlev
• Russian Foreign Policy Elites
  • Robert English
    
  • Julie Newton

1:30 – 3:00 PM | Panel 2: Power Ministries and Force-Based Actors

Discussant: Alijcia Curanovic

• The Russian Intelligence Agencies
  • Peter Clement
• The Role of Russian Defense Officials in a Russian Leadership Transition
  • Dmitry Gorenburg
• Russian Paramilitary Groups After Putin
  • Kimberly Marten

3:15 – 5:00 PM | Panel 3: Russian Popular Opinion, Mobilization, and Regional Actors

Discussant: Dmitry Gorenburg

• Central Regional Relations in Russia’s Personalist Regime: Prospects After Putin
  • Irina Busygina
  • Mikhail Filippov
• A Post-Putin Russia: The Mass Public
  • Timothy Frye
• A Reemergence of Politics? Considering Russian Society in the Post-War Period
  • Regina Smyth
• Will Ethnic Minorities in Russia’s Republics Mobilize in Post-Putin Russia?
  • Elise Giuliano