Cornered like a rat, Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than ever. We want
his regime to be unstable, fragile, and collapsing – but 14 months of
war have shown it is remarkably resilient. We wanted the Russian people
to rise up against tyranny, but more than a million fled the country
instead. Analysts, politicians, and the media have been wrong about so
much when it comes to Russia. What are we still getting wrong.
Mark Galeotti is an author and academic – by training an historian – but
in practice an interdisciplinary scholar with interests encompassing
politics, criminology, security studies, international relations, and
anthropology. He is a specialist in transnational and organized crime,
security affairs, Russian Politics, Russian History, Intelligence and
Security. Mark has a PhD in Government from LSE and has worked as a
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of History at Keele University.
He is a Principal Director at Mayak Intelligence, and is an Honorary
Professor, SSEES at UCL. He is a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal
United Services Institute. He has also been Professor of Global Affairs
at New York University from 2009 to 2016.
