Vladimir pozner
Vladimir Pozner speaks to MIIS students on November 9, 2021. (Credit: Dr. Anna Vassilieva )

Fall 2021

Date & Time Presenter Teaching Module

10/7, 12, 14, 21, 26, 28

Zoom

Maria M. Buras
Author, Journalist, based in Moscow

Overview of Russian Internet Interview Programs

in Russian

10/18, 21

Zoom

Dr. Yury Kruchkin
Diplomat, Professor, Author, leading Russian expert on Mongolia

Soviet-Mongolian Relations Based on Declassified FSB Materials

in Russian

Features of Mongolian Foreign Policy in the Last 30 Years

in Russian

11/09, 11

In-person

 

Vladimir Pozner 
Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

Up and Down the Volga River in Search of the Russian Soul

in Russian

A Conversation with Vladimir Pozner

in English

11/18

Zoom

Elena Kostyuchenko
Russian investigative journalist and special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper

A Conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko

in Russian

11/30, 12/02

In-person

 

Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov
Russian investigative journalists and authors, founders of Agentura.ru

Lecture by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

A Conversation with Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

in Russian

Spring 2022

Date & Time Presenter Teaching Module

4/4 - 4/8

In-person

Ivan Kurilla
Author, Professor, based in St. Petersburg

Victoria Zhuravleva
Author, Professor, based in Moscow

Michael Kimmage
Author, Professor, based in Washington DC

Igor Logvinenko
Political Economist, based in Los Angeles

The Americanists

in Russian and English

4/15

Zoom

Michael Kimmage
Author, Professor, based in Washington DC

Ivan Krastev
Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies

Jade McGlynn
Senior Researcher, Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies

Prisoners of History? Memory, Myth-Making, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

in English

4/21

In-person

 

William Pyle
Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

Exiting Communism’s Enduring Effect on Russian Public Opinion

in English

4/26

In-person

Samuel Greene
Professor of Russian politics, based in London

The Informational Dictator’s Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship, Cooptation and Marginalization in Russia and Belarus

in English

5/3

In-person

 

Elena Kostyuchenko
Russian investigative journalist and special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper

A Conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko

in Russian

5/5

In-person

Olesya Vartanyan
Senior South Caucasus Analyst, Crisis Group

Where Something is Thin, That’s Where it Breaks: How the War in Ukraine Affects Conflicts in the South Caucasus

in English