This week, our guest is Alexander Pilyasov, a professor of geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. We discuss the Russian Arctic, cooperation in the region with China, and growing competition with the United States. We recorded the conversation in Belgrade, following a “Trialogue” on American, Russian, and Chinese interests in the Arctic.

Time Stamps:

• 00:01:13 The Arctic in the Russian economy
• 00:17:38 Life in the Russian Arctic
• 00:23:56 Energy export from the Russia Arctic
• 00:26:52 Sanctions
• 00:32:41 China in the Arctic
• 00:40:29 Growing competition with the US in the Arctic

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.