Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
Guests: Valerie Kivelson and Christine Worobec on witches, magic, spells in their new sourcebook Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000–1900 published by Cornell University Press.
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
Guest: Eric Lee on Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge – April-May 1945 published by Greenhill Books.
While everyone is focused on Medvedev’s recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, life goes on as usual in Russia . Perhaps, all too usual. Yesterday,
As regular readers can see, my blogging has been sparse over the last few weeks. I just finished a three week teaching blitz of a
http://www.kommersant.ru/media/00000434.swf Things are looking bad for Russia’s floundering “opposition”. I say “opposition” because the Western media has declared the Russia’s liberal forces–Yabloko, SPS, and Other
By Dmitri Minaev and Sean Guillory The biannual EU-Russia Summit is taking place today in the provincial town of Samara. European-Russian relations, the Middle East,
It was only a matter of time before this was going to happen. The Moscow City Court has ruled that the National Bolshevik Party constitutes
Moscow courts have moved one step closer to banning the National Bolshevik Party. According to Kommersant, The group was engaged in activities that violate
Youth political activism in Russia is a tale of two youths. One stands in front of a line of police in riot gear in St.
It looks like Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party can’t catch a break. Once again the radical organization has been denied registration as a political party.
I promised to write an update on Russian youth organizations, especially the August 29th attack on a meeting of the National Bolsheviks and other youth
It seems that many of Russia’s opposition parties can now breath a sigh of relief. Today, the Russian Supreme Court overturned the Moscow Regional Court’s