Russia’s defence spending and defence industry at a time of economic crisis
The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Totalförsvarets Forskningsinstitut (FOI) have the pleasure to invite you to a seminar on Russia’s defence spending and defence industry with speakers from Försvarets Forskningsinstitut (FFI) in Oslo, Center for Analysis of strategies and technologies (CAST), Moscow and FOI. FFI, CAST and FOI have a joint project assessing the economic conditions for Russia’s defence spending and the development of the Russian defence industry since 2013. The seminar aims at making results available to others and to spur a discussion of these issues. See time and place below.
Program:
09.00-09.15
• Welcome by Torbjörn Becker, Director of SITE
• The FFI-FOI- CAST cooperation. Project progress Tor Bukkvoll, Head of the “RUECGRO”
project, FFI, Oslo.
09.15-10.30 Session 1
• The Russian 2009 decision to put defence first – a study in public policy decision making, Tor Bukkvoll, FFI
• Russian Armed Forces and Defence Spending, Ruslan Pukhov, Director of CAST, Moscow.
10.30–11.00 Coffee break 11.00–12.00 Session 2
• Effects of the break-up of the cooperation between the Russian and Ukrainian defence industries, Tomas Malmlöf, FOI
• Russian military modernization at any costs? Cecilie Sendstad, FFI.
The seminar will be introduced and chaired by Susanne Oxenstierna, Deputy research Director, FOI.
Presentations by each speaker will be 15-20 minutes and time will be available for questions and discussion in each panel.
Date: Wednesday 16 September, 09.00 – 12.00. The registration starts at 08.30.
Place: Stockholm School of Economics, Room: Stora Salen, Holländargatan 32.
RSVP: Thursday 10 September to gun.malmquist@hhs.se, or 08-736 96 72
SITE at the Stockholm School of Economics www.hhs.se/site. Since its foundation in 1989, SITE has become a leading research and policy center on transition in Central and Eastern Europe, including Russia. More recently we have broadened our research focus to include issues relevant to emerging markets and developing countries more generally.
