Join PONARS Eurasia for the next installment of the New Voices on Russia speaker series.

Stanislav Markus of the University of South Carolina will shed light on an important determinant of Russia's domestic and foreign policy: the relationship between government actors and business owners. How have state-business relations evolved since Putin came to power? What is the impact of corruption and insecure property rights on the strategies of Russian firms? Are Russia's oligarchs likely to change the country's trajectory? The discussion draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in Russia since 2003.