Seminar recordings and podcast episodes

Below you will find recordings from previous years’ Russia Seminars as well as podcast episodes that provide background information on the topic.

Recorings

Russia Seminar 2024: Russia's War Against Ukraine - Complexity of Contemporary Clausewitzian War (youtube.com).

Russia Seminar 2023: Russia’s War on Ukraine: Strategic and Operational Designs and Implementation (youtube.com).

Russia Seminar 2022: Russian Concept of War and Operation, Management and Use of Military Power - Conceptual Change (youtube.com).

Russia Seminar 2021: Russia’s Interpretation of Deterrence (sderzhivanie) (youtube.com). 

Podcast

Podcast episodes are available through the National Defence University's Sotataidon ytimessä podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other popular podcast platforms.

 

30. The Russian Military and Way of War, with Michael Kofman

In this episode Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies Program at CNA, joins Lt. Col. Simo Pesu and senior researcher Pentti Forsström from the Finnish National Defence University’s Russia Research Group to discuss about Russia’s journey to war and fighting in the invasion of Ukraine. They debate on the consequences of Russian military culture, doctrines and force structures and also touch on Russia’s training to the fighting and adapting for the war.

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52. Russia Seminar 2024 

In this episode Lt. Col. Janne Pukkila, professor Bettina Renz and researcher Jonna Alava from the Finnish National Defence University's (FNDU) Russia Research Group discuss about Russia research in Finland and globally.

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58 Civil-military Relations in the Context of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Having entered already the third year of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, one can hardly disagree that it is immensely important that apart from operational level assessments and analyzing what’s happening at the frontline, we also have to look into the social and societal aspects of this war. That is, shift our focus from purely tangible or quantitative factors to also intangible elements affecting military, its effectiveness and performance. Therefore, in this podcast, we’ll be focusing on the relationship between the society and the armed forces. In other words, the challenges of civil-military relations with a special focus on the Russian armed forces. Host: research assistant Oona-Maaria Hyppölä. Guests: visiting professor Bettina Renz and researcher Jonna Alava.

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