Showing posts with label Kennan Institute. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennan Institute. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

WWII German prisoners in the Soviet Union

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That’s the subject of Susan Grunewald ’s new book   From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union  (2024) ...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Feminine dissidents in Russia

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   Pussy Riot, Feb. 14, 2012 / By Denis   Bochkarev, Creative Commons, Wikipedia Russia has many feminist groups, but it has not been easy f...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

At the think tanks: Dr. Fiona Hill

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Fiona Hill / Wilson Center Yes, that  Fiona Hill . The one who testified at  Trump's impeachment trial. A former member of the Nat...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

At the think tanks: Czar for life?

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Vladimir Putin, Feb. 20, 2020/ Wikimedia, Kremlin A tour guide in Moscow laughed when I bought a magnet at a gift shop with Vladimir P...
Friday, May 10, 2019

At the think tanks: 'A Journey to the Gulag'

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Outside Yekaterinburg, Russia, a memorial to the estimated 130,000 area identified citizens seized in the Gulag/ Photo by Patricia Lesli...
Friday, April 26, 2019

At the think tanks: Russia's political prisoners, a talk

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/   Izabella Tabarovsky , the moderator, and Sergey Davidis at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Wa...
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Film 'Finding Babel' highly recommended

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Isaac Babel , 1930s / Wikipedia When I told my friend Joe that he ha d missed Finding Babel with Isaac Babel 's grandson at the...