Recent Events

  • Dinner with Andranik Migranyan

    On October 5, the Center for the National Interest organized a small, off-the-record dinner with prominent Russian analyst Andranik Migranyan. Mr. Migranyan discussed Russia’s foreign policy in the wake of Russia’s airstrikes in Syria and President Obama’s meeting with President Putin at the UN General Assembly.

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  • Center Delegation in Moscow

    From September 14-16, Center Executive Director Paul Saunders led an expert delegation to Moscow for a day-long meeting with faculty at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) to discuss U.S.-Russia relations, Ukraine, Iran and Syria. The delegation also met with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and with leading parliamentarians and non-governmental experts representing

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  • Dinner with H.E. Sergey Kislyak

    On September 22, the Center for the National Interest organized a small, off-the-record dinner with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak of Russia. Ambassador Kislyak discussed U.S.-Russia relations and Moscow’s perspective on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.

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  • Foreign Policy by Bumper Sticker

    Ambassador Richard Burt, Managing Director of McLarty Associates and former Ambassador to Germany, and Dimitri K. Simes, President and CEO of the Center for the National Interest, spoke at the Center on September 11 about their article in the September/October 2015 issue of The National Interest magazine. The discussion addressed the damaging effects of a

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  • Russia’s Financial System: How Vulnerable?

    On September 10th, Dr. Sergey Aleksashenko, a former senior economic official under President Yeltsin, discussed Russia’s financial sector at an event at the Center for the National Interest. Dr. Aleksashenko, who is currently a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, explained the state of Russia’s economy and the impact of Western imposed sanctions. The

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