


Valentina Izmirlieva Named 2025-26 Fellow at Institute for Ideas & Imagination
Valentina Izmirlieva is a member of the 2025-26 Fellowship cohort at Columbia’s Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris. During the Fellowship, Izmirlieva will be working on a monograph about the militarization of Russian Christianity under Vladimir...
Applied Knowledge: How a Russia Enthusiast Became an International Banker
In the Winter 2015 Edition of Harriman Magazine, Masha Udensiva Brenner profiled Gail Buyske. Buyske did not always plan to go into the financial sector, nor was she always interested in the post-Soviet region…the real turning point came in 1975, during her...
From Central Europe to Central Asia: The Harriman Library of Contemporary Fiction
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Richard F. Gustafson (1934-2024)
by Colleagues from the Department of Slavic Languages