Military and security dimensions of the Donbas Conflict. Talk by Igor Sutyagin
Date and time:
Thursday 21 April, 2016
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
The two years of conflict in the east of Ukraine have been a testing time for Ukraine’s leadership and its armed forces, which had to build their capacities from scratch. With the diplomatic solution for the conflict in limbo, it remains to be seen what its frozen model will look like or what the potential for further confrontation will entail.
Igor Sutyagin, Senior Research Fellow, Russian studies, Royal United Services Institute, will deliver a presentation, to be followed by a Q&A session and a wine reception. He will cover such issues as; the scale and nature of Russia’s military involvement in the conflict, its long-term scenarios, the future of the Minsk agreement, as well as information operations in the context of this conflict.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Igor Sutyagin
Dr Igor Sutyagin’s research is concerned with Russian foreign policy and its domestic situation, strategic armaments developments, and broader nuclear arms control. Prior to joining RUSI, Dr Sutyagin worked at the USA and Canada Studies (Russian Academy of Science) for 12 years. To date, he has authored over 120 articles and booklets published in the Soviet Union/Russia, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland. He is also the co-author of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Weapons. He spent nearly 11 years in a Russian jail on the basis of an accusation that was found by the European Court of Human Rights to be imposed with violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. Igor was released in 2011 (with three other Russian citizens) in exchange for the release of a group of spies arrested in the United States.
