Thursday 19 May 2022
07:45
John Lough
What's next for Russia?
Russia expert, John Lough, joins us to discuss the current crisis, Germany’s failings in the years preceding the war and the outlook for Russia and Ukraine going forward.
John is an Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009) and a consultant with Highgate, a London-based strategy advisory firm. From 2003 to 2008, he was as an international affairs adviser at TNK-BP, Russia’s third largest oil company. He spent six years with NATO’s Office of Information & Press (1995-2001), including a posting to Moscow where he set up NATO’s Information Office. He later managed NATO’s information programmes aimed at Central & Eastern Europe. From 1989 to 1995, he was a senior lecturer at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre where he wrote extensively on Russian foreign and security policy. He is the author of ‘Germany’s Russia Problem’ published in July 2021. He studied German and Russian at Cambridge University.
'With admirable clarity, fairness and insight, Lough lays bare the roots and results of Germany's failure to think strategically about Russia, and the price that everyone else pays as a result.'
Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House
John is an Associate Fellow of the Russia & Eurasia Programme at Chatham House (since 2009) and a consultant with Highgate, a London-based strategy advisory firm. From 2003 to 2008, he was as an international affairs adviser at TNK-BP, Russia’s third largest oil company. He spent six years with NATO’s Office of Information & Press (1995-2001), including a posting to Moscow where he set up NATO’s Information Office. He later managed NATO’s information programmes aimed at Central & Eastern Europe. From 1989 to 1995, he was a senior lecturer at the Soviet Studies (later Conflict Studies) Research Centre where he wrote extensively on Russian foreign and security policy. He is the author of ‘Germany’s Russia Problem’ published in July 2021. He studied German and Russian at Cambridge University.
