Please join the Harriman Institute and the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia for a talk with Olena Semenova, co-chair of the Ukrainian LGBT organization LIGA. Professor Tanya Domi (SIPA/Harriman) will moderate. Olena Semenova is the co-chair of the Ukrainian LGBT organization LIGA, which seeks to promote the interests of LGBTQ individuals, promote healthy lifestyles and diversity, and develop partnerships…
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The dramatic collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 presented the world with an unprecedented challenge: some 29,000 Soviet strategic and tactical nuclear weapons suddenly found themselves on the territory of not one but four new sovereign nations: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. While Russia inherited more than two-thirds of the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal and its status…
On September 29th, 2017 please join us for a lecture entitled “Putin’s politics and collective memories in Russia (2013-2015)” by Julia Sweet, PhD Candidate at Rutgers University. The event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. This study analyzes the political manipulations of Vladimir Putin’s regime using the collective memory…
The latest proposal of the Kremlin on Ukraine may be more Trojan Horse than olive branch.