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Mark Galeotti discusses trajectories in Putin’s Russia
On Sept. 29 the NYU School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs and the Jordan Center teamed up to present the first installment of Revisiting Russia, a special series...
Mark Konecny shares unexpected history of Russian art in America
On Sept. 18, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Mark Konecny, Associate Director and Curator of the archives and library of the Institute of...
Marks and Angles: An Immigrant Story
You can tell from our left arms.
The Vory: understanding Russia’s gangsters in their historical and political context, a book talk with Mark Galeotti
With the collapse of the Soviet state, many of the criminals began entering elite positions. The infectivity of the authorities allowed for criminality to roam freely on the streets: terrified...
Rereading Akunin: A Conversation with Eliot Borenstein
Fandorin is just not a joiner. And specifically, if there’s one principle to which he’s committed above all others, it’s this notion of “personal human dignity” and the individual's prerogative...
Radoslaw Markowski presents research on Polish politics after the October 2015 election
The last Polish election might have been the last election in a normal, democratic context.
More of the same: Why Russia’s equity market isn’t down by more
Critics of Putin’s recent tactics have suggested that this time, he has damaged investor confidence beyond repair.
Poor Liza and Russia’s Sentimental Marketplace
On December 11, 2020, the Jordan Center welcomed Prof. Kirill Ospovat for a talk on links between narrative modes and visions of economy that defined Russian sentimentalism. Through a close...
Speak, Memory: The Case of Yuri Dmitriev, Part I
Dmitriev spent a good part of the 1990s in FSB archives examining case files on purge victims. After finding gaps in the lists, he asked for protocols from NKVD “troikas”...
Speak, Memory: The Case of Yuri Dmitriev, Part II
Historian Yuri Dmitriev’s initial arrest came on December 13, 2016. It was the beginning of a nightmare involving months of pre-trial detention, two psychological examinations, and finally an acquittal –...
Vladimir Putin as a Renaissance Prince
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU SCPS Center for Global Affairs. He blogs at In Moscow’s Shadows.Back in 1968, the Slavic Review published a fascinating and...
There and Back Again (Russia's Alien Nations)
Was the Soviet Union the model for Mordor?
Is a Crocodile Longer Than It Is Green? (Russia's Alien Nations)
On the level of logic, you can prove anything.
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...
Living in Cossackworld
Mark Galeotti is Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU SCPS Center for Global Affairs. He blogs at In Moscow’s Shadows. When is a Cossack not a Cossack? When he’s...
Why Putin’s Oil Maneuvers Will Keep Russia in the Middle East
Soviet Filmmakers in Africa
Filmmaker and Visiting Fulbright Scholar Alexander Markov spoke of the line between propaganda and art that Soviet documentarians walked in Africa.
Cold Snap (Part I): Russian Film after Leviathan
This essay provides context for roughly thirty-five current and upcoming Russian films, loosely clustered around four topics: directors; debuts; economic health; and dominant industry trends.
Soviet Bullsh*t and New Russian Spell-Casting (Russia's Alien Nations)
Green is not just the color of the crocodile, it is the color of the money that he conjures out of thin air.
How Will Our Scholarship On Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture Change In Response To Russia's War On Ukraine?
On May 25, 2022, six scholars—all primarily Russia specialists—responded to the question of how scholarship on nineteenth-century Russian culture would change in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The present...