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Event Recaps

Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science
On April 27-28, the Russian Studies Program at the European Studies Council of the MacMillan Center hosted an international conference on “Regime Evolution, Institutional...
Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film, Semester II
The series Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film commemorating the centennial of the 1917 Revolution continued throughout the Spring semester. Six films shown in the second...
Professor Thomas Graham (right); and Professor Stephen Hanson (left)
On March 18, in a landslide victory of over 76 % of the votes, Vladimir Putin extended his time in office for another six years. Thomas Graham, Senior Lecturer in Russian...
Professor Fred Strebeigh on Defending Russian Nature
A number of images has lately been associated with Russia—invasion of Crimea, European energy security, election hacking— but “environmental protectionism” is not one of them...
Russian Journalist Provides a Fresh View of Moscow’s Politics
“In a physical sense, traveling from Moscow to New York is easy. In a political sense, it feels like going to a different planet,” said Russian journalist Mikhail Rostovsky...
Rita Safariants, Assistant Professor of Russian, St. Olaf College
“Can music change the world?” is the question Tomek Lipiński, a co-founder of a Polish punk band Brygada Kryzys, is faced with at the end of the film Beats of Freedom. At the...
Chapayev poster
The last screening in the Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film series this semester took place on Wednesday, December 6. The film, Chapayev (Чапаев, 1934), was the first ‘...