Join us for a book presentation by Dr Ofer Fridman and Dr Vera Michlin-Shapir: Deciphering Russian Enigma: In 15 Questions and 30 Answers.

Using Russia as a case study, this book aims to advance a way of analysing (however limited, biased and uncertain) available information to advance a more critical understanding of the subject in question by using the methodology of dialectic inquiry.

The event will take place in Bush House North East wing, room 1.03.

SPEAKERS

Dr Ofer Fridman is a Senior Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London. Ofer’s research focuses on the intersection between strategic communications, influence and information operations, strategic studies and contemporary conflicts, with particular focus on Russia. Ofer’s recent books include: Russian Hybrid Warfare: Resurgence and Politicisation (OUP, 2022), Strategiya: The Foundations of the Russian Art of Strategy (OUP, 2021), Info-Ops: From World War One to the Twitter Era (Lynne Rienner, 2022), and Deciphering Russian Enigma: In 15 Questions and 30 Answers co-authored with Vera Michlin-Shapir (Palgrave, 2024).

Dr Vera Michlin-Shapir is Director of Education at Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the King’s Russia Institute and holds a PhD in Russian national identity from Tel-Aviv University. She formerly lectured at the War Studies Department, King’s College London. Vera is an expert in audience vulnerability in Central and Eastern Europe, disinformation, and Russian state- sponsored influence campaigns. Her previous book Fluid Russia - Between the National and the Global in the Post-Soviet Era was published with Cornell University Press in 2021.