SRB Presents: Geopolitics on the Move
Presenting Geopolitics on the Move, a podcast series I recorded this summer with Fyodor Lukyanov, the editor of Russia in Global Affairs.
September 23, 2020
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Protests in Belarus
Elena Gapova on the protests in Belarus.
September 11, 2020
Biculturalism and the Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The final two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “A Brief Conversation on Biculturalism” by Alexandra Diouk and “Remembering the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Mission: 45 years of US-Russian Space Cooperation” by Lisa Becker.
September 2, 2020
Trash Protests and Leninopad
Two short audio pieces from the Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia. “The Great Russian Trash Crisis” by Seth Farkas and “An Empty Pedestal: Ukraine after Leninopad” by Sabrina Beaver.
August 31, 2020
Soviet Military Masculinity
Guest: Erica Fraser on Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union published by the University of Toronto Press.
August 23, 2020
Culture
Russia’s Negative Family Values
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Family Values and Putin’s Fourth Pillar,” Last month, the Russian journalist Oleg Kashin called the 23 year old man brutally murdered
June 13, 2013
Migrants and the Russian Nation
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Migrants and Russia’s Split National Identity,” When asked about migrant workers in a recent interview with Moskovskii novosti, Sergey Sobyanin
June 6, 2013
Boston Conspiracy Theories Unite Americans and Russians
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Tsarnaev Conspiracy Theory Simulacrum“: The bombings in Boston carried out by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought the United States and
April 25, 2013
Russian Protest Art in The Stream
Yesterday I joined Serhiy Kudelia, professor at George Washington University, and Vor, the leader of Voina, on The Stream, Al-Jazeera English’s daily news talk show,
February 7, 2012
Children’s Choir of the USSR
More holiday catch-up. BBC Documentaries did a program on the Children’s Choir of the USSR. A good way to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the
January 4, 2012
My Perestroika on PBS
http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf Watch the full episode. See more POV. I don’t usually post plugs, but I received an email from the Community Engagement and Education Department
June 25, 2011
Craving Cold War
Back in late 2008, when Pajamas Media was still having me write articles on Russia (they’ve since stopped asking, I think, because I wasn’t anti-Russian
July 11, 2010
Porno Hacker Saga Continues
The story of Russia’s world famous porn hacker keeps popping up in the news. It’s not, unfortunately, because of any new examples of his brilliance. Rather the story keeps getting headlines because of the Russian keystones’ bungling. Anyone surprised?
March 27, 2010
Consuming Russian Feminism
The theme of my last post on how International Women’s Day has been transformed from a public to a private holiday reminded of the enormous advertisement for Elle Magazine at Lubyanka Square covering Detskii Mir. The ad is a blend of revolution, feminism, and consumerism with its depiction of riotous women holding signs that read: “Let there always be mini-skirts!” “Give us a paid holiday during sales!” “Shopping is the best opium!”
March 9, 2010
Domesticating March 8th
One hundred years ago today, the First International Women’s Congress adopted International Women’s Day as a day of struggle for women’s rights. But in Russia, where the holiday, what was once a day calling for a “struggle against patriarchy,” has in many ways become patriarchy’s reinforcement.
March 8, 2010