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Russian Journalist Provides a Fresh View of Moscow’s Politics
March 2, 2018
“In a physical sense, traveling from Moscow to New York is easy. In a political sense, it feels like going to a different planet,” said Russian journalist Mikhail...
March 1, 2018
“Can music change the world?” is the question Tomek Lipiński, a co-founder of a Polish punk band Brygada Kryzys, is faced with at the end of the film Beats of Freedom. At the...
Darya Smirnova, European & Russian Studies MA Program
February 27, 2018
When Darya Smirnova, originally from Odessa, Ukraine, and educated at St. Andrews University in the U.K., arrived at Yale, she wondered if all of her international...
February 26, 2018
On February 16, Marci Shore, professor of cultural and intellectual history at Yale University spoke in conversation with the New Haven community about her most recent book...
Rocking Regimes image collage
February 16, 2018
On February 22-23, 2018, Yale will host a conference entitled “Rock(ing) Regimes” featuring Russian, Polish and Czech films. It will look at the effect rock music had on the...
Vatican Recently Recognized History Professor Timothy Snyder
February 10, 2018
The Vatican recently recognized Jackson history professor Timothy Snyder with its Distinction of the Blessed Martyr Omelian Kovch, named for a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest...
February 2, 2018
For the full recording of the event After the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and the more recent conflict in Crimea in 2014, many are asking: are we now in a ‘new normal’ for...