The Harriman Institute is pleased to present the exhibit Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, 1920s-1980s featuring a series of works photographs by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. “What is the attitude of bourgeois society to homosexuals? Even if we take into account the differences existing on this score in the legislation of various countries, can we speak of a specifically bourgeois attitude…
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Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Maria Lipman, a Russian political analyst and commentator, currently a visiting Distinguished Fellow of Russian Studies at Indiana University. Lipman was previously a scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Center in Moscow. She is the founding editor of Counterpoint, an online journal published by the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George…
Victoria Lomasko is a fixture at Moscow’s trials and protests, documenting the tumultuous processes that shape today’s Russia. Not content to limit herself to the political life of the country’s capital, Lomasko travels around the country and through the former Soviet republics, exploring the domestic, psychological, and spiritual condition of its diverse marginalized groups. Sex workers in Nizhny Novgorod, women…
Russian protests matter—but don’t expect a revolution
Putin takes them seriously. We should, too.