Aleksanteri Election Seminars
The Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki launches a seminar series on the Russian
elections. The elections of the Duma will take place on 4 December 2011 and the elections of
the president on 4 March 2012. Elections in Russia are always an interesting moment: Since
the first Duma elections of the Russian Federation in 1993, the elections have brought into
the surface otherwise rather hidden processes in the political landscape of the country.
The first of three Aleksanteri Election Seminars is entitled
Russian Duma Elections: Mapping the Political Landscape
Time: 30 November, 9.00 – 11.00
Coffee: 8.30 – 9.00
Place: Unioninkatu 33, banquet hall, 3rd floor
Programme:
CHAIR: Antti Helanterä, Deputy Director, Policy Planning and Research, Ministry
for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Personalistic, Peripheral and Pointless? The Russian Party-System at the End of
2011
Sean Roberts
Intelligentsia, Cultural Elites, and Power
Sanna Turoma and Saara Ratilainen
Religion, Nationalism and Minority Issues in Russian Elections
Kaarina Aitamurto
Political Activity of Russia´s Youth
Jussi Lassila
Media and Elections
Katja Koikkalainen
Russian Duma and Foreign Relations
Hanna Smith
Competition in the Russian Energy Sector
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
The next two seminars will be Do Elections Matter? (25 January, 2012) and New President,
New Russia: What Next? (14 March, 2012)
Registration by 25th November at https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/31290/lomake.html
More information at http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/electionseminars/