Major General Pavel Zolotarev (retired) is the Deputy Director of the Institute for U.S. and Canada Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Professor at the Academy of Military Sciences. As part of the Visiting Experts program of the Graduate Initiative of Russian Studies, General Zolotarev will present a series of lectures focusing on US and Russian military and security policies. The first of these lectures is titled, “The Origins and Evolution of Post-Soviet Russia Threat Perceptions,” and will be given on Thursday, October 20. The second, which will take place on Tuesday, October 25, is titled, “Russian Military Doctrine: Past and Present,” and the third, titled, “US Ballistic Missile Defense: Real and Imagined Threats” will be given on Thursday, October 27. Each of these will be given from 10:00AM-11:50AM in MG-100. All three of these lectures will be given in Russian.
Retired Major General Pavel Zolotarev previously served as head of the Information and Analysis Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense and deputy chief of staff of the Defense Council of Russia. He is the sixth of ten lecturers who will visit the MIIS campus this semester through the GIRS program.