I believe this is one of the crucial lessons that we drew from the Cold War, in learning that it was very important to have an understanding, not just culturally but also politically and organizationally, of how things worked in the Soviet system. I believe that was still the case throughout the last 20 to 30 years, even though other international security priorities took the forefront of attention. This is especially the case today, and certainly one way that we can facilitate it is by accommodating the Russian exiles to become integrated in various different ways.
I think that academic centres have always been willing to reach out to provide some sort of public access. I think those could be institutionalized. The federal government could certainly incentivize its own institutions and agencies to work with existing academic centres or provide funding to set up new academic centres or umbrella groups that could coordinate with them.
Certainly we would need the ability to create places for these new Russian exiles to be able to move into, to give them the opportunity to provide advice and a voice. They can also be very critical in speaking to the domestic threat of disinformation from far-right groups, which was mentioned earlier in the questions.