by Russia Research Group
The Finnish National Defence University is organising the 7th annual Russia Seminar in Santahamina, Helsinki on the 12th and 13th of February 2025. The seminar will also be streamed online.
The title of the 2025 seminar is “Russia’s War against Ukraine – Trends and Lessons”. We strongly encourage academic and professional discussion on the topic of the protracted war and are, therefore, launching a Call for Papers by the 15th of November 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the 6th of December 2024.
To attain more detailed information about the Seminar, Call for Papers process and the exact instructions for the abstarct submission, please contact either Senior Researcher Pentti Forsström (pentti.forsstrom@mil.fi) or Seminar Coordinator Jenny Lindfors (jenny.lindfors@mpkk.fi).
All speakers are offered the possibility of extending their seminar contribution into articles published in the FNDU series of research reports. You may find the conference proceedings from the last four seminars below.
Conference proceedings from the last four seminars:
Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Complexity of Contemporary Clausewitzian War (2024)
(to be published in September 2024)
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Strategic and Operational Designs and Implementation (2023)
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3400-5
Russian Concept of War, Management and Use of Military Power: Conceptual Change (2022)
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3288-9
Russian Concept of Deterrence in Contemporary and Classic Perspective (2021)
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-25-3250-6
Russian Military and Security Research Group 