Program of the event
Keynote speaker: Mark Galeotti (Honorary Professor, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies):
Is Russia a Prisoner of Its History?
Speakers:
Jussi Lassila (Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs):
Fascism in Russia — Past and Present
Kaarina Aitamurto (Senior Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki):
Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Russia
Salla Nazarenko (International Affairs Specialist, The Union of Journalists in Finland):
Are There Human Rights in Russia?
Antti Rautiainen (Independent scholar):
Anarchy Forever!
Commentator: Tuomas Forsberg (Professor of International Relations, Tampere University)
Moderator: Sanna Turoma (Professor of Russian Language and Culture, Tampere University)
The event will mark the publication of a forthcoming book Aatteiden Venäjä: ideoiden ja aktivismin historiaa (eds. S. Turoma, V. Oittinen, M. Perkiömäki, Gaudeamus, Oct 2026):
Aatteiden Venäjä - Gaudeamus https://www.gaudeamus.fi/teos/aatteiden-venaja/
Keynote speaker Mark Galeotti is the author of several books on Russia, among them two translated into Finnish:
Voima ja valta: Venäjän mafia Kremlin suojeluksessa (Docendo, 2019)
Sodista taottu Venäjä: Muinais-Venäjästä nykypäivään (Docendo, 2025)