Russian

The Flying Ship is a story about love and how it helps to overcome impossible obstacles. Ivan is a simple peasant who falls in love with Tsar’s daughter - Zabava. Zabava falls in love with Ivan too, however, her father is forcing her to marry a rich boyar Polkan, to whom he owns money. Protesting her father’s order, Zabava announces that she will marry the one who is able to build a flying ship. Here, Ivan’s quest begins…Will he be able to build a flying ship and rescue the love of his life?

Fritz Bartel is a diplomatic historian at Texas A&M University. His book on the end of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2022), The Triumph of Broken Promises, has been widely praised for its political-economic interpretation of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism in the United States.

Co-sponsored by the International Politics & Economics program

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in Mahaney Center for the Arts Room 126.

Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

— a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

Free screening of 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (documentary, dir. Mstyslav Chernov, 2023), sponsored by Middlebury Russian Department and IGS-REES. An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and more.

Diplomat Thomas Leary served in Russia at two very different periods: 1999-2004 and 2015-2019. His first term there came during the growing decline in U.S.-Russian relations and the difficult aftermath of Russia’s 1998 financial crisis. By the time Mr. Leary returned to St. Petersburg as U.S. Consul General in 2015, the freeze between the two countries was deepening because of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. Meanwhile at home Russia had become both much more prosperous and more authoritarian.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs presents Dr. Artyom Tonoyan and “Paradise Lost: Nagorno-Karabakh’s Quest for Independence from Aspiration to Exile.”

Remarks and awards for seniors and their families in Mahaney Center for the Arts Room 126.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Italian, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.

Come to the Russian House to learn how to make Russian dumplings and vareniki!