Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 challenged much of the common Western understanding of Russia. How can the world better understand Russia? What are the steps forward for Western policy? The Eurasia Center’s new “Russia Tomorrow” series seeks to reevaluate conceptions of Russia today and better prepare for its future tomorrow.

On Tuesday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and Cyber Statecraft Initiative host a hybrid event launching the newest report in the Eurasia Center’s pathbreaking Russia Tomorrow series on Moscow’s cyber warfare capabilities and lessons learned from their execution in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

In the newest Russia Tomorrow report, Confronting Russia’s cyber power: Reassessing assumptions, sizing up the threat, and building a proactive response, author Justin Sherman, nonresident fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, assesses the expectations-versus-reality of Russia’s wartime cyber operations. Sherman also dives into the broader Russian cyber web (including state agencies, patriotic hackers, state-coerced criminals, and Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “adhocrats”), and where Russian cyber and information meddling mesh with the Kremlin’s geopolitical objectives.

Brian Whitmore, nonresident senior fellow at the Eurasia Center, moderates a hybrid panel discussion featuring cyber and foreign policy experts on the above and more.

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Laura Galante
Principal
WestExec Advisors
Former Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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The Eurasia Center’s mission is to promote policies that strengthen stability, democratic values, and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe in the West to the Caucasus, Russia, and Central Asia in the East.

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Technology Programs, works at the nexus of geopolitics and cybersecurity to craft strategies to help shape the conduct of statecraft and to better inform and secure users of technology.

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