What’s Next for Russia?

The Russian presidential elections may be formally over, but the fallout from Putin’s return to power persists. Discontent has grown amongst increasing swaths of the population—indeed no agitation of this size or scope has been seen in Russia since the glasnost period of the late 1980s. As one prominent analyst has observed, “everything presently is unpredictable and up for grabs.”

To help make sense of the ever-changing Russian political condition—the possibilities for repression, reform, or radicalization—we hosted, through videoconference, five prominent interlocutors from Open Society offices in New York City and Washington, DC.