Revolt’s ripple effect: what comes after Prigozhin’s 24-hour rebellion?

Leila is an Affiliate of Russian and East European Studies at OSGA, prior to which she was a senior common room member and academic visitor at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Originally from Azerbaijan, she founded and directed two think tanks in Baku and previously held fellowships at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Kennan Institute, the NATO Defence College and IFK (Institut Für Kulturwissenschaften) Vienna. Her research and publications cover Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, Russia and the broader former Soviet Union, ranging thematically from energy security and conflicts, to democracy in oil-rich states, as well as issues around EU and NATO integration.

Valerii Pekar is the Co-Founder of The New Country civic platform, which unites experts working on reforms in Ukraine. He is a former member of the National Reforms Council and has served as an advisor to several Ukrainian ministers of economic development and trade. Pekar teaches the Managing Future course, which focuses on the use of forecasts in corporate practice, at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, as well as courses in the evolution of thinking, leadership and management. He also lectures at the Lviv Business School (LvBS) of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

Hanna Liubakova is a journalist and analyst from Belarus. She is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council and has written about the latest developments in Belarus for The Washington Post, The Economist, Deutsche Welle and other international outlets. She is widely recognised as one of Belarus’s leading voices of the free press. Following the 2020 revolution, Liubakova was forced to flee Belarus and was put on the regime’s wanted list. She continued to report on the people’s resistance, including amid the Belarusian regime’s participation in the war against Ukraine. Liubakova also won the 2023 One Young World Journalist of the Year Award and was the 2021 European Press Prize finalist.