The present crisis is as serious as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, said Professor Richard Sakwa, keynote speaker at the Russia in Global Politics - Driving Values and Interests conference. Co-hosted by CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest, the April 20 event was part of CEU’s Frontiers of Democracy series.

In the first panel speakers discussed Russia's relations with the West, EU's foreign and security policy as well as German-Russian relations, and  Russia's realtions with China.The second panel focused on the values and interests driving Russia’s policies in post-Soviet space, focusing on the four post-soviet unrecognized states and the Eurasian Economic Union. The third panel of the conference discussed the impact of Western sanction on Russian economy, society and on domestic politics.

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