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In Defense of Democracy: The Role of Higher Education in Post-Communist States

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism 2950 Broadway, New York City

Come to Columbia this Thursday for a public panel on academic freedom in post-Soviet states. Panelists include: Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, US Umida Ganieva, Humanitarian – Legal Center, Uzbekistan Altay Goyushov, Independent research scholar, Azerbaijan Ihar Kuzminich, Warsaw University, Poland Liz Shchepetylnykova, American Councils of International Education, Ukraine Moderator: Robert Quinn, Executive Director, Scholars at Risk RSVP here.…

Gender and Transformation Workshop | Eliot Borenstein

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York

Post-Soviet Masculinities: Sex, Power, and the Vanishing Subject Eliot Borenstein Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor,  New York University From the Center for Europe and Mediterranean Studies. 

It Will Be Fun and Terrifying: Nationalism and Protest in Post-Soviet Russia

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different ideologies. In the years that followed, Limonov, Dugin, and the movements they led underwent dramatic shifts. The two leaders eventually became political adversaries, with Dugin and his organizations strongly supporting Putin’s regime while Limonov and his groups became…