currently in the center of attention. the president and parliament of turkey, which many consider fateful, we will talk about it with evgenia haber, senior analyst at the center for studies of modernurkish memory evgenia greetings good evening greetings well, what is this literally you know, it's almost like eurovision, only it's more interesting. eurovision is a day away, and the turkish elections are two days away, and we can already understand what happened in the morning of may 15. and what will happen , what is the landscape before the battle? called by many already called fateful because they choose not only the president and the parliament , not only new names or old names, in fact they choose the form of government in turkey , presidential or parliamentary, they choose the style life is more conservative, muslim or secular, they largely choose the western course or the one that is now the special path of turkey, so for many turks it is actually a fateful choice. especially since this is the centenary of the turkish republic and each of the candidates promises a new century in the life of the turkish republic in a completely different way. different, what do you think is th

thank you thank you very much, yevgenia yevgenia haber, senior researcher of the atlantic kalnetsev center for the study of moderntalked about the presidential elections in turkey, which will already be held, i will remind you this sunday, the first round, thank you very much . and finally, one more video from our a colleague of the correspondent's colleague maryana kushnir, the military of the armed forces of ukraine gave him greetings for their mothers on mother's day look happy mother's day so that they wait for their sons, they are very worried about us, they pray on time i want to congratulate my beloved mother on mother's day so that she does not worry to sleep peacefully i'm fine we stand by each other i want to congratulate my wife on mother's day she too mom don't worry about us everything will be fine we will definitely come back she is the best person in my life she is very worried sometimes she cries but she doesn't tell me about it she always calls me in a good mood i am very grateful to her for that because if she didn't call me with such a mood i wouldn't have such a mood here i want to congratulat

center for middle eastern studies , thank you, ms. yevgenia, yevgenia haber became analysts of the center for the study of modern turkey we will continue results of the elections, but now we will move a little towards the borders of turkey to the balkans, by the way, this is also the former territory of the ottoman empire. will there now be an armed conflict between the serbs of kosovo, mrs. mary , good afternoon well, in fact, i expect that there won't be yet, at least i think it's too early to talk about a conflict, although well, you have such a region that everything can be there, but it must be some kind of development of events, all these protests that we see, and even the approach of the serbian army to the borders with kosovo, this is also a kind of move. i think that this is generally a move of the student himself for that to settle his internal crisis because he is going through his crisis and his protests in the country and after the night people were killed in serbia and actually he needs some number of steps that would show the support of the population that he cares about the country kosovo is such a very painful place fo

. >> professor anna whitelock is the director of the center for the study of modern monarchy. >> i thinkhe sense of questioning the critical role of monarchy is over now. people are questioning why, what, how, and those kinds of questions about monarchy's place, its role, its significance, its influence are being asked. >> not my king! >> not my came! >> graham smith runs an anti-monarchy organization whose noisy protests have punctuating king charles' appearances since he ascended the throne. what's most in this country believe in democracy, account ability, equality, and so on, and the monarchy stands firmly against those values and we should not be putting up with an institution that stands against the values and principles of the rest of the country. >> this demonstration in liverpool late last month is a taste of what they have planned for the coronation. while inside westminster abbey, one of the most embolic acts the public will not witness will be the anointing of king charles with holy oil to symbolize his spiritual status. >> i think people confuse this with privilege. they thi

of modern warfare will prove decisive in the country offensive. and we can now welcome samuel ben, that he's an advisor with the center for naval analysis of the russian studies program and, and the junk senior fellow with a center for a new american security. mr. bennett, welcome to the w. r. we currently witnessing the 1st ever real drone war to we are actually we're witnessing a significant optic enjoying activity in drawing manufacturing in the supplies of different types of drugs, the front and both sides, your brain in the russian military trying to learn the lessons from using both military and the commercial type, drones like the ones that you just showed. so why use drones rather than conventional missiles to attack these like have or moscow, as we've seen in recent days. they're cheap. each of the drones that russia launch is against key of, or the drones that recently struck. moscow are actually much cheaper than the missiles. in fact, many magnets. it's cheaper than the missile. for example, the russia build. i rang and drone flying under the name get on can cost no more than $50000.00. a missile that can have a comparable reach can cost many hund

center for strategic and international studies. dr. cha. what's your reaction to this, that the u.s. is now in support of a joint effort by allies to train ukrainian pilots on moderns a big deal, charles. i mean, i think the ukrainians and zelenskyy have been asking for this for quite some time. as he put it, to defend the skies in ukraine. the united states, the biden administration was reluctant to do that. largely because they didn't want to escalate the war with russia. so this is a big step. the united states in conjunction with the uk, a couple of other countries, denmark and belgian, i think. we'll have to train these pilots. of course, the next question will be who will provide f-16s to the ukrainians? that will be the next shoe that will drop in this very big and significant military move. >> why do you think that biden changed his mind, and do you see it as an escalation in the conflict? >> i don't see it as an escalation in the conflict, i think it was a right venue in which to do this. the g7 meeting -- the rich market democracies of the world, at one point russia was a part of it. and china was certainly one of the countries that was often discussed.

modern international history. fred was previously the ambinder professor of history at cornell and also served as vice provost and director of the mario einaudi center for international studies. dr. lugovoi is of course the author of a of books. many you will be familiar with them. ten books altogether i think. right up to now most recently jfk coming of age in the american century 1917 to 1936. his book embers of war the fall of an empire and the making of america's vietnam won the 2013 pulitzer prize for history and the 2013 francis parkman prize as well as the american library in paris book award and the arthur ross book award from the council foreign relations. other recent works include america's cold war, the politics of insecurity published with campbell, craig and the college level textbook people and the nation, a history of the united states. a native of stockholm sweden, fred holds a ph.d. in history from yale university. he's a past president of the society of historians of american foreign relations. fred, a warm welcome to the washington history seminar. the room, it's all yours yours. why, thank you, christian. i'm just so pleased to be with all of you and to