by Ronald Meyer | Jan 14, 2025 | Alumni, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) writes about the responsibilities of the Russian opposition in ending Russia’s war in Ukraine (Kyiv Post, Nov. 4, 2024). In the absence of any indication from Russia that Russia’s war against Ukraine will end with Russia’s...
by Ronald Meyer | Jan 7, 2025 | Alumni, Faculty, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
Elaine Wilson (Slavic Ph.D.’23; Term Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University and Barnard College) published an essay on the fusion of the sacred and secular in Russian wartime propaganda and political worldview (Public Orthodoxy, Dec. 30, 2024). One...
by Ronald Meyer | Jan 2, 2025 | News, Read
Konstantin Mitroshenkov (Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic) is the translator into Russian of “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow (Moscow, Ad Marginem). The enormously popular book, which “aims to synthesize...
by Ronald Meyer | Dec 10, 2024 | Faculty, News, Read
Thomas Kent writes that Western media outlets need to expand and enhance their outreach to the Global South in order to combat Russia’s disinformation campaign (The National Interest, Dec. 9, 2024). For years, Russia’s main tactic to compete with Western news...
by Ronald Meyer | Dec 5, 2024 | Contemporary Culture, News, PhD, Read, Russia, Writers in Residence
Venya Gushchin (Ph.D. Candidate, Slavic) reviewed Maria Stepanova’s “Holy Winter 20/21,” translated by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions, 2024) for Fullstop. Stepanova’s book was the subject of a symposium, convened at the Harriman Institute, in...
