Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program and the Eurasia Club at The Fletcher School for lunch and introductions to faculty, staff, students, and researchers. Professor Chris Miller will introduce the program and speak about the current state of Western sanctions against Russia. We encourage you to read his recent articles on Russia’s economy and capping the price of Russian oil. We will also be joined by some of the program’s visiting scholars from Russia. Please make sure to register via myFletcher to participate in the event in person. The event is restricted to members of the Fletcher community. The event will be held in the conference room on the first floor of 114 Curtis Street, Somerville. Lunch will be served.

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Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at The Fletcher School and Co-Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program. He has previously served as Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy. He has written three books, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR (2016), Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia (2018), and We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin (2021). He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Yale University and his B.A. in history from Harvard University.