Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club for a lunch seminar with analyst Kamil Galeev and visiting scholar Pavel Luzin. How is Russia making weapons to sustain its invasion of Ukraine? They will discuss Russia’s manufacturing of missiles and the current state of Russia’s economic mobilization. We encourage you to read an overview of Russia’s machine tool industry and a recent forecast about Russia’s arms manufacturing. The Eurasia Club weekly lunch seminar series engages with students, faculty, staff, and researchers to foster a better understanding of the region among members of the Fletcher community. Members of the wider Tufts community are also welcome to attend. Lunch will be served. Register via myFletcher.

Pavel Luzin , Ph.D. in international relations (IMEMO, 2012), is a researcher of Russia’s foreign policy and defense, space policy, and global security issues. Luzin is a contributor to the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA), the Jamestown Foundation (USA), and Riddle (Intersection Foundation, Lithuania). In 2017–2018, he was a consultant on armed forces, law enforcement agencies, and defense industry issues for Alexei Navalny’s presidential campaign. In 2016–2018, he was a consultant on Russia’s domestic politics for the “Nations in Transit” project at Freedom House (USA). In 2013–2014, Luzin was a research fellow at IMEMO (Russia). In 2013, he was an assistant to the editor-in-chief of the Security Index journal at PIR Center (Russia). Luzin was also a lecturer and senior lecturer at Perm State University (Russia) in 2010–2017, a senior lecturer at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2011–2013, and a visiting assistant professor at HSE (Perm campus, Russia) in 2018–2019.

Kamil Galeev is a London-based analyst, who is currently researching the Russian military industry. He is conducting a thorough investigation of the manufacturing base for Russia's production of missiles. He has contributed to a broad range of media as a journalist, particularly for Novaya Gazeta. He previously served as a Galina Starovoitova Fellow at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He holds an MLitt in Early Modern History from the University of St Andrews (Scotland), where he was a Chevening Scholar. He also holds an M.A. in China Studies and Economics from the Yenching Academy at Peking University (Beijing) and a B.A. in History from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow).