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Posts tagged as “Putin”

“Tolerance… is in Our Blood”: The Politics of Tolerance in Putin’s Russia

Join us for a talk with Nikolay Sarkisyan, PhD candidate, Department of Literature, University of Oslo, Norway and Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute. Nikolay Sarkisyan will present the results of his PhD project on the formation, implementation, and decline of the politics of tolerance in Russia in 2000-2010s. In his research, he argues that the politics of tolerance became possible…

Russia Without Putin Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood

On Tuesday, December 11th please join us for “Russia Without Putin Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War- A Book Talk with Tony Wood”. It is impossible to think of Russia today without thinking of Vladimir Putin. More than any other major national leader, he personifies his country in the eyes of the world, and dominates Western…

Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia

Please join us on Wednesday, October 3rd for “Geography of Anti-Corruption Protests in Russia”, a talk with Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham University. This event is part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. On 26 March 2017 thousands of people in nearly one hundred Russian cities participated in anti-corruption protests. This episode of…

A Foreign Policy Forecast for the Balkan Peninsula in the Age of Presidents Vladimir V. Putin & Donald J. Trump

Please join us for a talk with Rudina Hajdari, a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. Rudina Hajdari is a Member of Parliament aligned with the Democratic Party of Albania. She is also a member of the Foreign Policy Committee and the European Integration Committee. Her primary policy interest(s) surround human rights. Ms. Hajdari is a part-time lecturer at the…