by Masha Udensiva-Brenner | Apr 30, 2026 | Awards, MARS-REERS, News, Read, Student
We’re so proud of our student Jordan Dickens (MARS-REERS ’26) for winning first place in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 2026 Master’s SynThesis competition for his thesis “Better Not to Think About It?: The AIDS Epidemic, Perestroika,...
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner | Apr 30, 2026 | News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
This is part two of a two-part interview with the Harriman Institute’s Paul Klebnikov Civil Society Fellow Irina Dolinina. Dolinina is an investigative reporter with Important Stories, a Russian independent investigative outlet in exile. She is a main character in...
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner | Apr 27, 2026 | Faculty, News, Read, Russia
How does fear affect public demand for state intervention? Timothy M. Frye (Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy) explores this question with coauthors Ekaterina Borisova, Koen Schoors, Vladimir Zabolotsky and Nikita Zakharov in “Fear,...
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner | Apr 23, 2026 | News, Read, Russia
This is part one of a two-part interview with the Harriman Institute’s Paul Klebnikov Civil Society Fellow Irina Dolinina. Dolinina is an investigative reporter with Important Stories, a Russian independent investigative outlet in exile. She is a main character in...
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner | Apr 20, 2026 | News, Read, Student, Ukraine, War in Ukraine
By Ann Cooper In the early weeks of 2022, Yana Balanchuk’s (MARS-REERS ‘27) school, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, was making plans for a return to in-person classes after two years of remote learning during the COVID pandemic. Then, on February 24,...
