The Texel Uprising
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
January 29, 2021
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REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
January 21, 2021
REEES Faculty Spotlight: Iknur Lider
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s Turkish instructor Iknur Lider.
January 21, 2021
The Soviet-Third World Cultural Nexus
Guest: Rossen Djagalov on From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
January 15, 2021
Dmytro Dontsov and Ukrainian Nationalism
Guest: Trevor Erlacher on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Age of Extremes: An Intellectual Biography of Dmytro Dontsov published by Harvard University Press.
January 8, 2021
Murder
Not Much to Gawk About
Scott Anderson’s article “Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power” is a throwback to the 1990s when ex-KGBmen turned mafioso, private security, or hired hands to
September 6, 2009
Two More Chechen Human Rights Activists Kidnapped
Two more human rights workers have been kidnapped in Grozny, the Russian media is reporting. According to Ingushetia.ru, Zarema Sadulaeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov
August 10, 2009
Responses to Estemirova’s Murder
http://www.newsy.com/videos/player.swf?related=http://new.newsy.com/api/get-related-videos/729/10/&file=http://www.newsy.com/api/get-video/729/&video_name= A quick rundown of Western media responses to Natalia Estemirova’s murder from Newsy.com.
July 20, 2009
Who will answer for Natalia Estemirova?
My translation of Novaya gazeta calling Putin out. Ramzan Kadyrov and the unnamed “officials of Chechnya”? They are all one in the same. We remember
July 17, 2009
Pointing the Finger at Kadyrov
The world is reacting to the murder of Memorial activist Natalia Estemirova. Already a universal consensus has formed as to who is responsible: Ramzan Kadyrov.Â
July 17, 2009
Another Casualty of the “Russian Abu Ghraib”
The Nation‘s Katriana Vanden Heuvel (and wife of Russia scholar Stephen Cohen) has addressed the murder of Natalya Estermirova. According to preliminary reports, Estermirova was
July 15, 2009
Klebnikov Murder Five Years On
Five years ago, Paul Klebnikov was murdered as he left his office in Moscow. Shot nine times. See the Russia Today video above for the
July 9, 2009
Politkovskaya Defendents Go Back to Court
It’s back to court for Pavel Ryaguzov, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov. Today, the Russian Supreme Court overturned their acquittal in the
June 25, 2009
Nashi Pisses on Nemtsov
A suspected murderer, an ex-KGB turned oligarch, and a “dissident” liberal are all part of what will prove to be a mayoral election of the
March 23, 2009
Medvedev Meets Novaya’s Muratov, Gorbachev
There has been alot of criticism of President Medvedev’s and Prime Minister Putin’s silence in regard to the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova.Â
January 29, 2009