Given the deeply entrenched obstacles—physical, social, cultural, material— to participation in public life by people with disabilities, whatever mention is made is still noteworthy.
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Very often I’m asked how Slavic Studies can attract more minorities. I’ll tell my own story.
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American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
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Strangely enough, fears of violence against gays can act as good PR for Russia by drawing attention away against a real threat: terrorism from the Caucasus.
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The publication of Gay Propaganda is set to February next year, making it a provocative response to the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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