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Showing posts with label Kennan Institute. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Kennan Institute. Show all posts

Monday, November 2, 2020

Feminine dissidents in Russia

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

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?

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'

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

/ 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

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

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