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Thursday 21 February

Scotland-Russia Forum AGM

6pm Summerhall Cafe, Summerhall main building, Edinburgh EH9 1PL.

All welcome. No charge.
The SRF trustees will present their report on activities and finances for 2017-18, as well as an update on the year so far.  Members have already received the trustees' report on financial plans, as discussed at last year's AGM, and on other changes, so we look forward to a lively discussion this year and a good attendance.
We are planning to offer attendees a light supper before the business of the AGM  which will be an excellent chance to start the discussion and to meet your fellow members.  Don't be late!
Members are encouraged to consider standing for the committee.  If you'd like to discuss that please contact Jenny Carr on info@scotlandrussiaforum.org / tel. 0131 560 1486.
Members will receive full details by the end of January.
Non-members are very welcome to attend the AGM on a non-voting basis.

Thursday 28 February

Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe

An International Workshop
5-7pm, Conference Room, The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 19 Buccleuch Place

A collaboration between the ‘Multilingual Moscow’ project (Higher School of Economics), the OWRI ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ Projects at the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham, and the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre (The University of Edinburgh)

The event is free and no registration is necessary. 
More information:email Dashkova.Centre@ed.ac.uk

Programme:
Chair: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (The University of Edinburgh)
 
Papers:
17:15- 17:35 Julia Mazurova (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), Urban multilingualism and the Russian language in Moscow
17:35- 17:55 Polina Kliuchnikova (University of Durham), The ‘Russian Word’: Power and Potentiality in Russian Language Provision in Dushanbe
17:55-18:15 Denis Zubalov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Language Policy and language ideologies in the Russian Capital City
18:15-18:35 Marina Raskladkina (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences) Migrant children in the Moscow school: educational rights and everyday challenges.
18:35-19:00 general discussion
19:00 wine reception

Friday 8 March

 Andrew Monaghan - Russian Views of War in the Twenty-First Century

The annual Erickson Lecture will be presented by Dr Andrew Monaghan (the University of Oxford).
5.30 pm,  The University of Edinburgh, Playfair Library Hall, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
 
For more information and to register please visit this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/erickson-lecture-2019-russian-views-of-war-in-the-twenty-first-century-by-dr-andrew-monaghan-tickets-54595467513
 
The event is free, but registration is required.

The strong sense of competition between the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia, often characterised as a “new Cold War”, has generated much discussion about the nature of the threat that Russia poses and the need for enhanced deterrence. But what is to be deterred? What is the nature of the military threat posed by Russia?  To be sure, the Russian military has, within a decade, been transformed through a major re-equipment programme, combined with reforms and thousands of exercises, and the establishment of the National Defence Management Centre. The results of this transformation are clear, not only in the fighting in Ukraine and Russia’s campaign in Syria, and the emphasis by the Russian leadership on increased combat readiness, but also in the increasingly obvious presence of the Russian military in the Arctic and Central Asia, and yet further afield in the Pacific and Africa. 
This lecture will explore the concepts the Russian defence community uses when discussing contemporary warfare, and how they compare and contrast to Western debates and understandings of Russian thinking. It will underscore the importance of geostrategy in Russian military thinking, and use this lens to sketch out how Moscow sees  the shifting international landscape and threats, and it will look at the strong influence of history on Russian contemporary military thinking, and reflect on the debates underway about the changing character of war. 
Dr Andrew Monaghan is the Director of Research on Russia and Northern European Defence and Security at the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre at Pembroke College. He is also a Senior Associate of Pembroke College.