Please join the New York University Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and Harriman Institute at Columbia University for the concluding event in the New York-Russia Public Policy series, held in person at NYU. This panel of four distinguished researchers and commentators on Russia will reflect on a decade of observing U.S.-Russia relations, how the two countries represent their relations and understand their interests, and the challenges inherent in communicating the many nuances of these relationships. Our panelists will also speculate on what we are likely to see in the next decade to come.
This event is supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
This event will be hosted in hybrid format. RSVP to attend in person. Register for the Zoom webinar.
Speakers
Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, Columbia University
Samuel Greene, Senior Nonresident Fellow in the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA); Professor of Russian Politics at King’s College London
Nina Khrushcheva, Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs, The New School
Maria Snegovaya, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Adjunct Professor in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service
Moderated by:
Joshua Tucker, Director of the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University
Alexander Cooley, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
Timothy Frye is Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy. Professor Frye received a B.A. in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College, an M.I.A. from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of “Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia,” as well as the recent work, “Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections.”
Samuel Greene is a Senior Nonresident Fellow in the Democratic Resilience Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and Professor of Russian Politics at King’s College London (KCL). Sam served as Director of CEPA’s Democratic Resilience Program from 2022 to 2025. Prior to that, Sam founded the Russia Institute at KCL, which he directed from 2012 to 2022. Before moving to London, he lived and worked for 13 years in Moscow, including as Director of the Center for the Study of New Media and Politics at the New Economic School and as Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He is the author of Moscow in Movement: Power & Politics in Putin’s Russia (Stanford, 2014) and Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (Yale, 2019, with Graeme Robertson), as well as numerous academic and policy papers. An American and British citizen, Dr. Greene holds a PhD and MSc from the London School of Economics and a BSJ from Northwestern University and is an elected fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences.
Nina Khrushcheva is Professor in the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs at The New School. She is an editor of and a contributor toProject Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. After receiving her Ph.D. from Princeton University, she had a two-year appointment as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at the NYU School of Law. She is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2013 and of a 2019 Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage from Trinity College Dublin. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other publications. She is the author of “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics” (2008), “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind” (Tate, 2014), and co-author of “In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones”(St. Martin’s Press, 2019). Her books in Russian include “Visiting Nabokov” (Vremya, 2008) and “Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System” (Diletant, 2024).
Maria Snegovaya is a Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She studies Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, as well as democratic backsliding in post-communist Europe and the tactics used by Russian actors and proxies who exploit these dynamics in the region. Her analysis has been published in multiple policy and peer-reviewed journals. Her research and commentary have appeared in a number of publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Economist, and Foreign Policy. Throughout her career she has collaborated with multiple U.S. research centers and think tanks such as Center for a New American Security and Center for European Policy Analysis. Snegovaya holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University.
