Conquering Nature in Sakhalin and the Arctic
Guests: Paul Josephson and Sharyl Corrado on conquering nature, settlement, and Russian expansion in the Arctic and Sakhalin.
February 19, 2021
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From Soso to Stalin
Guest: Ronald Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution published by Princeton University Press.
February 12, 2021
Watering the Soviet Lands
Guests: Maya Peterson and Christopher Ward on water and the environment in the Soviet Union.
February 5, 2021
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
REEES Faculty Spotlight: James Pickett
Faculty Spotlight on the University of Pittsburgh’s historian of Russia and Central Asia–James Pickett.
January 21, 2021
Wikileaks
Svetlana Medvedeva: Charity, Church, and Children
The following cable gives some insight into one area we often don’t often get a sense of: Russian First Ladies. Unlike the United States, the
December 5, 2010
Chechnya: The Once and Future War
May 30, 2006 P 300927Z MAY 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF
December 3, 2010
Russian Reaction to Livinenko Murder Charges
VZCZCXRO5415 OO RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2429/01 1441227 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 241227Z MAY 07 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0559 INFO RUEHXD/MOSCOW POLITICAL
December 2, 2010
Litvinenko Assassination: Reaction in Moscow
VZCZCXRO3998 OO RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2751/01 3351444 ZNY CCCCC ZZH O 011444Z DEC 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5613 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
December 2, 2010
“Recent reports of the death of academic freedom in Russia are greatly exaggerated”
VZCZCXRO4612 RR RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #2688/01 3031153 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 301153Z OCT 09 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5229 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE RUEHXD/MOSCOW
December 2, 2010
Russia’s Security Forces Hew Closer to Imperial Okhrana
Update Note: I’ve updated this cable to reflect the one on the Wikileaks site. As Ed Lucas noted (see comments below), the Russian Reporter version
December 1, 2010
“A Caucasus Wedding”
VZCZCXRO9862 PP RUEHDBU DE RUEHMO #9533/01 2430639 ZNY CCCCC ZZH P 310639Z AUG 06 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1394 INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
November 30, 2010
“Putin Still Holding the Reins”
So far the Wikileaks dump of US diplomatic cables have revealed little that Russia watchers didn’t already know or hadn’t previously suspected. Granted, it’s still
November 30, 2010