Putin: the man who arranges the blocks
The entirely brilliant Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris by Pig With The Face Of A Boy, encapsulates what we could call Russia’s long century – from the start of...
View ArticleAnna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique
On Nov. 5 journalist and author Anna Arutunyan joined Russia expert and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Mark Galeotti in conversation for an event at the...
View ArticleCyborgs, Weak Cosmists, and a Russian Planet
Anya Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her first book Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism was published in 2013 by the University...
View Article“Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin!”: celebrating political masculinity in Russia
Note: This is the first in our new series of posts highlighting new work by scholars in our field. This essay first appeared on the Oxford University Press site. Valerie Sperling is Professor of...
View ArticleVerbal Judo, or How Not to Commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day
Ernest A. Zitser, Ph.D., is the Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. This year, as a...
View ArticleThomas Graham: US-Russia relations need new framework
On April 1, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Thomas Graham, managing director at Kissinger Associates, for a lecture titled “Rethinking US-Russian Relations.”...
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