Not as Weak as We Hope? Not as Strong as We Fear? Russia Four Years into the War
hosted by Professor
Sergey Radchenko
Elizveta Fakht
BBC Russian Service Reporter
Alexander Gabuev
Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center
Max Seddon
Financial Times' Moscow Bureau Chief
ELIZAVETA FOKHT Elizaveta Fokht is Senior Reporter at BBC News Russian. She is a Moscow-based journalist, covering Russian domestic politics and civil society.
ALEXANDER GABUEV Alexander Gabuev is Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center where he leads a renowned team of analysts who were formerly part of the Carnegie Moscow Center, which was forced to close by the Kremlin in early 2022 after nearly three decades of operation.
Gabuev's own research is focused on Russian foreign policy with particular focus on the impact of the war in Ukraine and the Sino-Russia relationship. Since joining Carnegie in 2015, Gabuev has contributed commentary and analysis to a wide range of publications, including the
Financial Times, the
Economist, the
Wall Street Journal, and the
New York Times.
Gabuev began his career as a journalist. He was a member of the editorial board of
Kommersant and served as deputy editor in chief of
Kommersant-Vlast, which at the time was one of Russia's most influential newsweeklies. Gabuev started his career at
Kommersant in 2007 working as a senior diplomatic reporter, as a member of the Kremlin press corps, and as deputy foreign editor for Kommersant.
Gabuev has previously worked as a nonresident visiting research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and taught courses on Chinese energy policy and political culture at Moscow State University. In April-June 2018, Gabuev was a visiting scholar at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) where he taught courses on Sino-Russian relations. Gabuev is a Munich Young Leader of Munich Security Conference.
MAX SEDDON Max Seddon has been the Financial Times' Moscow Bureau Chief since 2021 and leads coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He was previously a correspondent in the Moscow bureau, where he wrote about the tug-of-war over money and power between the Kremlin, Russian oligarchs, and state companies, as well as topics from the Orthodox Church to football. Before that, he covered Russia and Ukraine for BuzzFeed News and the Associated Press.
