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URL:http://www.russianmix.com/events/viewevent/11240-focus-on-russia-putinism/ 
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SUMMARY:Focus on Russia: "Putinism"
DESCRIPTION:Each semester the MIT Security Studies Program, together with the MISTI MIT-Russia Program, and the MIT Center for International Studies, presents a speaker series entitled “Focus on Russia,” which considers a number of current issues in Russian domestic and foreign policies. The public is welcome to attend.
About the Speaker:
Brian Taylor is Professor and Chair of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Taylor is the author of three books on Russian politics: The Code of Putinism (Oxford University Press, 2018); State Building in Putin’s Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He received his B.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Copies of Taylor's latest book The Code of Putinism will be available for purchase for purchase at the event.
LOCATION:MIT Building 40 - Muckley Building, Room 496, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142
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