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Philippa Hetherington explores anti-trafficking rhetoric in a Soviet and global context
On April 22, 2016, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Philippa Hetherington from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London for...
Putin wants a shining legacy. He has to solve 3 big problems first.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has just started his new term in office and is mulling how to secure his legacy. In his fourth and likely last term, he will be...
On "Pragmatism" in Soviet and Russian Foreign Policy in the Middle East and Ukraine
"From Messianism to Pragmatism" was the subtitle of a seminal book on Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, published in 1993. The author, renowned scholar Alexey Vasiliev, argued that,...
Totalitarian Speech: Putin’s "National Traitors"
If you read the speech for content, it becomes nonsensical.
“But We Are Always at Home”: Disability Activism, Solidarity, and Staying at Home in Russia
Ivan Bakaidov describes himself as a "web activist with cerebral palsy." In March 2020, as Covid-19 lockdown measures were announced in his hometown of Saint Petersburg, Bakaidov launched the hashtag...
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?
A New Companion for Readers of Dostoevskii
Today, "All the Russias" features an interview with the editors of "A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts," a new volume out this month from Academic Studies Press.
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...
Belarus on a Knife-Edge
Time will tell whether the Minsk protests have reached that magical tipping point.
When Piety Goes Wrong: Russia, Athos, and the imiaslavie Controversy
The imiaslavie, or “Name-Glorifiers,” controversy emerged from ambiguities in Church teachings and believers’ growing desire to pursue piety and personal salvation.
Spaces of Movement: Moving Away from the State or Moving the State
It was a lively and diverse symposium that took place on Friday, March 15, when the Jordan Center in cooperation with the Hagop Kevorkian Center brought together four prolific scholars...