Please join the Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, and Amnesty International at Tufts University for a film screening of Navalny (2022), followed by a conversation with Yury Terekhov, Pavel Luzin, and Sergei Erofeev, experts on Russia’s political landscape and opposition.

Navalny follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery, he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home. The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2023.

The event is open to the public. If you would like to submit discussion questions for the speakers in advance, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. The event will be followed by a standing dinner reception.

	Sergei Erofeev is currently a lecturer at Rutgers University in New Jersey. His research interests are in cultural theory and social change. He previously served as Vice Rector for International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Dean of international programs at the European University at Saint Petersburg, and Director of the Center for Sociology of Culture at Kazan Federal University in Russia. His current work is focused on developing a methodology to study “tectonic value shifts,” the culture of mafia state and state terrorism.
	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 visiting scholar at The Fletcher School (USA) and 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.
	Yury Terekhov, a political consultant and researcher, holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Jagiellonian University, Cracow (2015). With 13 years of experience in political and media management across Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and the United States, Yury has contributed to various fields. Serving as the editor (2014-2017) of the now-banned Rufabula webzine, contributing to WotTak TV, and consulting NITKA media, he played a pivotal role in development of independent Russian-language media. In 2016-2017, as a research fellow at the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry in Washington, D.C., Yury monitored legislative changes impacting Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. His leadership in sanctions advocacy against human rights violators and warmongers is evident through the project Putin’s List (2019-2022), alongside spearheading the Talent Pool for Free Russia, a capacity-building initiative for Russian political activists. Yury also played a leading role in popularizing the white-blue-white protest flag of the Russian opposition in 2022. His commitment to knowledge and positive social change is underscored by completing a Galina Starovoytova fellowship at the Kennan Institute (2023), where he focused on the experiences of Russian anti-war grassroots movements.