Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

Chen Chao

Elena Chernenko

James Collins

Sun Chenghao

Timothy Colton

Samuel Charap

Giulietto Chiesa (1940 - 2020)

Brahma Chellaney

Mesut Hakkı Caşın

Hélène Carrère d'Encausse

France

Permanent Secretary of the French Academy; Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Previous positions: Professor of Russian History and Russian Politics in Sorbonne and Institute d'Estudes politiques de Paris, Member of European Parliament (1994-1999).

Research interests: Russian History (Eighteenth-Twentieth centuries); Soviet politics; nationality problems in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and nationality relations in present-day Russia, Central Asia and Caucasus. Russian foreign policy, Russian demography.

Selected publications: “Reform and the Revolution in Central Asia”; “The Great Challenge (Nationalities and the Bolshevik State 1917-1930)”;“The Russian Syndrome”; “The Decline of an Empire”; “Lenin, Nicolas II, Catherine II, Alexander II, l'Empire d'Eurasie”.

Russian award: Great golden medal Lomonosov, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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Ukraine Crisis: Extremists Are on Both Sides

The unstable situation in Ukraine was caused by extremists from both sides of 2 Ukraines, interested in further destabilization. In the West they try to push Russia to make some unwise moves in Eastern Ukraine.

28.05.2015

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Valdai Club Experts on Putin’s Most Important Statements

Valdai Club Russian and foreign experts have said that Vladimir Putin’s statement about the possibility of running for president in 2018 was the most interesting, although not at all unexpected. Members of the Russian opposition, however, pointed to Putin’s words on protest movements in Russia and his promise to consider an amnesty for the Bolotnaya Square protesters.

20.09.2013

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