Rutland Lectures on Democracy, Capitalism, Comparative Politics in Russia

Peter Rutland, the Colin and Nancy Campbell Chair of Government, gave a lecture on “Democracy and Capitalism” at the Urals State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia on May 31. He published an opinion piece about the region’s new governor in the Moscow Times on June 3.

On June 9, he attended a meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian President’s State Academy for Economics and Public Administration, to discuss the curriculum and select faculty for a new B.A. in Comparative Politics.