Meeting

In-Person DC Roundtable: A Career of Russia-Watching: A Conversation With Jill Dougherty

Monday, September 29, 2025
Speaker
Jill Dougherty

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Presider
Linda Robinson

Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

from Roundtable Series on Women's Global Leadership and Women and Foreign Policy Program

In a conversation with Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow bureau chief and author of My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin, Linda Robinson, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at CFR, discusses Russia’s evolution under President Vladimir Putin, including President Putin's impact on youth, women, the media, and other groups, as well as the impact of the war in Ukraine.

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