The videos of the the 17th Aleksanteri Conference keynote presentations are now available at the Aleksanteri Institute YouTube channel

For your convenience below are the links to individual videos:

Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research / Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany): "Modernization" in Times of "Globalization"
Barry W. Ickes (Pennsylvania State University, USA): Resource Rents and the Soviet Experience
Georgi Derluguian (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates): The Soviet Revolution of 1917: Did It Make a Difference? 
Irina Dezhina (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia): Science and Innovation Policy in Russia: Back to the "Catch up and Overtake" Model
Xin Li (Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, China): Выборы России в современной международной ситуации [Russia's Choices in the Contemporary International Context]
Tatiana Romanova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia): Russia's Relations with the West: What's Next?