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Russian and East European Studies

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Russian Generation Z: Russian youth involvement in politics

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Russian and East European Studies
Semenova is a journalist, editor, and public relations expert. She is currently editor-in-chief of the Russian-language Q&A media service TheQuestion. Before that, she worked as a contributing writer for the Institute of Modern Russia. Her piece titled “A New Wave of Emigration: The Best Are Leaving” was selected as one of the institute’s top 10 analyses of 2015. Until 2012, Ms. Semenova was chief editor of the New York office of Snob Magazine, covering a range of topics from sports to politics and writing a column about life in New York City.
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Vladimir Putin: Weak Strongman

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, and Russian and East European Studies
Tim Frye ‘86, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Department of Political Science, Columbia University will be sharing highlights from his recent book about Vladimir Putin. One theme of the book is how political science research on authoritarian regimes can illuminate the constraints that Putin operates under.

Presented by the International and Global Russian & East European Studies Program. Co-sponsored by the Russian Department, International Politics and Economics and the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Putin's Russia & Youth Resistance

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Russian and East European Studies and International & Global Studies
Artemy Troitsky will speak regarding today’s Russia and it’s youth. Troitsky is a Russian music critic, historian of youth movements, author, radio host, producer,… as well as part of the Middlebury Russian summer school graduate program. Join us for his lecture followed by question and answer.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Plots against Russia: Cultural Contamination and the Language of Conspiracy

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, and Russian and East European Studies
Eliot Borenstein’s forthcoming book, Plots Against Russia, is a study of the role of paranoid fantasy in contemporary Russian political discourse and culture. Rather than simply respond to every conspiracy theory that makes the news, or assume that conspiracy is somehow an exclusively Russian disorder, Borenstein examines the frameworks that have allowed conspiracy to flourish there.

Eliot Borenstein is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Memory of the Gulag in Contemporary Russia

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, and Russian and East European Studies
Steve Barnes is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. His lecture will examine the politics surrounding commemoration of the Gulag prison system in contemporary Russia and Kazakhstan. Each country sports an authoritarian government and engages in significant mythmaking about the history of Soviet repression. Those myths differ in key ways but the Gulag past is used in both cases to justify the current political system.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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