{"id":6041,"date":"2014-10-20T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=6041"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:12","slug":"impressions-valdai-russias-foreign-policy-second-putin-presidency","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/event\/impressions-valdai-russias-foreign-policy-second-putin-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions from Valdai: Russia&#8217;s Foreign Policy in the Second Putin Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>The on-going crisis in Ukraine has resulted in a renewed focus on Russia\u2019s foreign policy towardsits neighbours and the state of relations between Russia and Western nations. Despite the often sensational headlines, the motivations behind Russia\u2019s diplomatic and domestic interests are\u2014like those of all nations\u2014inherently complex and require nuanced unpacking. In this special lecture, <b>Professor <\/b><b>Piotr&nbsp;<\/b><b>Dutkiewicz&nbsp;<\/b>will explore key themes in Russia\u2019s foreign policy discourse, drawing on his thoughts and impressions fresh from <b>attending the annual meeting of Valdai<\/b>; a prestigious international research and discussion club based in Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Piotr&nbsp;<\/b><b>Dutkiewicz&nbsp;<\/b>is a professor of Political Science and co-director of the Centre for Governance and Public Management at Carleton University. He is internationally recognized as a leading expert on Russia\u2019s internal, regional, and global affairs. In recognition of his outstanding body of research and contributions to Canada-Russian relations, Dutkiewicz has received the <b>Russian Federation\u2019s Order of Friendship <\/b>from President Dmitry Medvedev (2009), the Embassy of Canada in the Russian Federation Award&nbsp;for his\u201cdistinguished and sustained contributions to Canada-Russia relations\u201d (2012), and the Research Excellence Award from Carleton\u2019s&nbsp; Faculty of Public Affairs&nbsp; (2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[9],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-6041","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-eurus"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2014-11-04T14:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2014-11-04T16:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"2017 (20th floor)","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"news-1","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"ottilie.grisdale@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6041\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}