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The Russian Media: Thirty Years of Freedom of the Press

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Join us for a screening of Yury Shchekochikhin: His Life in Words and Deeds (2017), followed by a panel discussion. Golden Film Studio’s 40-minute documentary examines the life and work of investigative journalist and Duma representative Yury Shchekochikhin. An outspoken champion of democracy, free expression, and the rule of law during perestroika and in post-Soviet Russia, Shchekochikhin was famous for his…

The Two Faces of Soviet Technocracy: Engineer-Utopians and Apparatchik-Intellectuals, and What Happened With Their Ideas Later

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Please join us for a talk with Ilya Kukulin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow). In the 1990s, political and economic reforms in post-Soviet Russia neither absolutely failed nor turned out to be obviously successful. It is better to say that their results became unpredictable for their initiators, as well as for participants and witnesses. Among these unforeseen consequences are…