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The Place of Unrecognized States in the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation - The Case of Transnistria
An unrecognized state is a political entity that possesses all the attributes of statehood (e.g., has armed forces, creates foreign policy) but lacks the international recognition of statehood status. One...
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...
Jordan Center co-hosts roundtable discussion with Russian journalists, bloggers
Eleven journalists and bloggers from Russia joined the Jordan Center on a U.S. reporting tour organized by the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center.
Russian scholars explore the use of the term 'biopolitics' in Jordan Center-UCL workshop series
What work is biopolitics doing as a heuristic in the Russian field?
The Jordan Center Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Like many of you, we at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia are dismayed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While we are a community of interdisciplinary...
Russia in the Global Context: a panel on Russia's role in international politics
On December 1st, 2014, the Jordan Center and the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Relationships organized a panel entitled “Russia in the Global Context.” The purpose of the event,...
Redemption of Sold or Purchased Land in Muscovy during the Reign of Ivan IV (1533-1584) and the Russian Attitude toward Rule of Law
How Muscovites understood the right of redemption (re-acquisition) of sold land or land donated to monasteries shows that, under Ivan the Terrible, statutory law and case law did not always coincide.
Jordan Center hosts North East Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Conference
On March 21, 2015, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia hosted the 36th Annual Meeting of the North East Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Conference. Roughly fifty...
Russia vs. PornHub: Lie Back and Think of the Motherland
Apparently, people would rather do anything else—watch porn, have gay sex—than engage in heterosexual intercourse.
Russia is Attacking Western Liberal Democracies
Russia is engaging in an orchestrated, strategic campaign whose purpose is to erode liberal democracy in Europe and the United States.
Jordan Center Director speaks with Sky News
Jordan Center Director Joshua A. Tucker spoke to Sky News on Saturday November 19th about the future of US-Russian relations following the US elections. Here is the interview:
For Whom the Windfalls? Oil Tax Revenues and Inequality in Russia
Our research shows that once oil windfalls in Russia are taxed and transferred to the state budgets, they may easily fall prey to the corrupt, politically connected elite, but this...
Russia greets the end of the world
For those of you not already consumed by fire in the molten pits or, worse, living without wi-fi, there are no more shopping days left before the Mayan Apocalypse.
Russia Under Siege: Attack of the Gay Pillows
It’s not easy keeping an open mind about what’s going on in Russia when government officials are so intent on keeping minds closed.
Russia is building a new Napster — but for academic research
What will future historians will see as the major Russian contribution to early 21st-century Internet culture? It might not be troll farms and other strategies for poisoning public conversation —...
A Semester of Diaspora at the Jordan Center
What would change if the emigration were renamed and recast as a diaspora, not to keep up with the fashion but to seriously consider what vistas it might open, what...
Dueling for the Soul of Russia
It looks unlikely that Navalny will succeed in his quest to topple Putin in the near future. He will probably remain a prisoner, a modern-day equivalent of Alexandre Dumas’ “Man...
Stand with Ukraine: An Open Letter from Russian and Kazakh students in the NYU Department of Politics on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
As citizens of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan, we unequivocally condemn this war, treacherously started by Vladimir Putin.
A Synthesis of Ephemeral Forms: Soviet Camera Enthusiasm on the Margins of the Performing Arts
During the renaissance that was the post-Stalin Thaw period, camera enthusiasm became a notable aspect of Soviet sixties culture. The film clubs opening in various parts of the country were...
Kevin Platt explores the meaning of Russian “Near Abroad” in the case of Latvia
Neither national nor diasporic, never displaced but out of place nevertheless, Russian culture occupies distinctive and complex positions in Latvia.