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Men Who Paint, Men Who Post: Visualizing Russian Masculinity
In his first personal Instagram post since his poisoning, a dazed Navalny sits up in his hospital bed, surrounded by smiling family. He is hunched, his collarbone and ribs visible...
A Spectre is Haunting Russia, or A Chilling Journey from Ulyanovsk to Silicon Valley, Part I
How does the Airpod-sporting, Tesla-obsessed Ulyanovsk teen compare to Eugene Onegin with a bust of Napoleon in his study?
A Spectre is Haunting Russia, or A Chilling Journey from Ulyanovsk to Silicon Valley, Part II
As near-daily news articles expose American tech leaders’ unethical business practices and shifts into neoconservativism, we are more in need than ever of creative means for limiting their power. Maybe...
HuffPost Interview: Is Media Distorting Russia & Ukraine?
Alyona Minkovski of HuffPost Live interviews guests David Speedie (Director of the Carnegie Council's program on U.S. Global Engagement), Yanni Kotsonis (Director of the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced...
The Takeaway Interview | Literature Offers Lessons For Growing Russian-Ukrainian Crisis
CNN Interview | Russia facing strong economic sanctions
Change is coming to All The Russias
I am stepping away from most of my editorial duties for the blog
Refugees: the challenge of being in between past, present and future
On Thursday, April 25, the Jordan Center hosted a discussion session with Professor Peter Gatrell from the University of Manchester. Gatrell is a specialist on Russian social and economic history,...
Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata on Stage: Domestic Violence and the Economics of Pity, Part I
I pictured myself as the narrator in Tolstoy’s 1889 novella The Kreutzer Sonata. Like me, he feigns sleep to escape a talkative seatmate. Like me, he is failed by this...
Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata on Stage: Domestic Violence and the Economics of Pity, Part II
Pity is weird. We happily extend it to strong figures but we’re stingy with the weak, with actual “victims.”
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...
Open Letter on the Termination of Russian Studies Faculty at Ohio University
Like you, we are wholeheartedly invested in the survival and recovery of higher education in the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic. That recovery depends on the will of universities...