Events

Dialogue between Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Mira Milosevic

Russia after Putin: scenarios for the opposition and the future of the regime

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising, on 7 April 2026, the dialogue «.«Russia after Putin: scenarios for the opposition and the future of the regime«in which the following will participate Mikhail Khodorkovsky y Mira Milosevic.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is a Russian businessman and philanthropist. He is a former chairman of YUKOS, one of the world's largest oil companies, where he promoted the adoption of international management standards and a significant increase in production. In 2001 he founded the Open Russia Foundation, aimed at strengthening civil society in Russia. After publicly criticising the regime's corruption, he was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to fourteen years in prison in a trial considered to be politically motivated. He was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International and released in 2013. Since then he has promoted a vision of Russia based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, free elections and the strengthening of a pluralistic civil society. He is the founder of the NEST Centre, dedicated to the analysis of Russia and its environment. His trajectory has been captured in the documentary film Citizen K, directed by Alex Gibney.

Mira Milosevich-Juaristi is a senior researcher for Russia, Eurasia and the Balkans at the Elcano Royal Institute, associate professor of The Foreign Policy of Russia at School of Global and Public Affairs from IE University. She has collaborated on several collective books and is the author of three books, two of them on the Yugoslav wars.The Sad and the Heroes. The Stories of Serbian Nationalists (200) y The Wheat of War. Nationalism and Violence in Kosovo (2001), published by Espasa Calpe. His most recent book is A Brief History of the Russian Revolution (2017, Galaxia Gutenberg, 7 editions). He has advised the European Parliament, the Spanish Parliament, the UK Parliament, NATO, STRATCOM and the US State Department on security issues related to disinformation as an instrument of Russia's hybrid warfare in the West. He is on the board of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative (IE University). He is a member of two working groups of the European Leadership Network, Contact Group on Western-Russian relations and the Russia-NATO Action Group. In 2020, it was Visiting Fellow  of the programme on Europe, Russia and Eurasia of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. thanks to the financial support of Argyros Family Foundation. Mira Milosevich holds a PhD in European Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid and a degree in Sociology and Political Science from the University of Belgrade. Diploma of the Workshop in Global Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School (2019) and CSIS executive courses diploma Understanding Russian Military Today (2020) y Understanding Washington (2020). His working languages are Spanish, English, Russian and Serbian.

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