Global Conversations MINNEAPOLIS: Putin’s Re-election – Stability or Stagnation?

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This Global Conversations is presented in partnership with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Vladimir Putin’s March 2018 re-election victory was never in doubt. Now that he’s officially back in power, where is he headed? Will he move forward with the economic reform he touts in theory, but ignores in practice? Will he slip backward into Brezhnev-style stagnation? Will his supporters stick with him, in his 18th year at the center of power?

Join speaker Jill Dougherty, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former Moscow bureau chief and correspondent for CNN, for a thought-provoking evening as she discusses the future of Russian foreign policy and power in the region.

About the Speaker

Jill Dougherty is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. In her three-decade career with CNN, she served as a Foreign Affairs Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where she covered the U.S. Department of State and provided analysis on international issues. Previously, Dougherty served as U.S. Affairs Editor for CNN International; Managing Editor of CNN International Asia/Pacific, based in Hong Kong; and CNN’s Moscow Bureau Chief and Correspondent. She also served as CNN White House Correspondent, covering the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where she pursued research on Russia’s mass media. Dougherty received a bachelor’s degree in Slavic languages and literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master’s from Georgetown University where she researched Russia’s soft power diplomacy.

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