Addressing the Covid-19 Pandemic in Eastern Europe
The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting everyone around the globe and leaves none untouched. However, much of the focus in international media has been on the most affected countries and richer countries in East Asia, the European Union and the United States with less attention given to countries around the Baltic Sea, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Since the FREE Network includes research and policy institutes in Belarus (BEROC), Latvia (BICEPS), Russia (CEFIR@NES), Poland (CenEA), Georgia (ISET), Ukraine (KSE) and Sweden (SITE), experts from the FREE Network institutes discuss the regional perspective on the pandemic with examples of very different strategies implemented in the countries concerned.
Speakers
- Jesper Roine, Professor at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE / Sweden)
- Sergejs Gubins, Research Fellow at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS / Latvia)
- Natalia Volchkova, Director of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research at New Economic School (CEFIR@NES / Russia)
- Yaroslava V. Babych, Lead Economist at ISET Policy Institute (ISET / Georgia)
- Tymofiy Mylovanov, President at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE / Ukraine)
- Lev Lvovskiy, Senior Research Fellow at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC / Belarus)
- Michal Myck, Director of the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA / Poland)
Chair/Moderator
- Torbjörn Becker, Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE / Sweden)