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• Beyond Crimea: Russian ambitions and toolkit since 2014
• Professor Gwendolyn Sasse writes article 'Trump and Putin Go Home' for Carnegie Europe
• Roy Allison's Publications
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• Dr Konstantin Zamyatin
• Second year MPhil student researching Rukh and the Baltic Popular Fronts: a Comparative Study
• Second year MPhil student researching slogans and symbols of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity
• Second year MPhil student researching Perceptions of the state: the case of Visaginas, Lithuania
• Second year MPhil student researching Azerbaijan-Russia relations, 2008-2016
• Second year MPhil student researching Lithuanian collective memory
• Dr Nazmus Sadat Khan
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• Marxism, Nationalism, and Intervention: Georgia and the Russian Revolution, 1918-21
• A new article published by Prof Roy Allison entitled ‘Protective Integration and Security Policy Coordination: Comparing the SCO and CSTO’
• Paul Chaisty on ‘How Russians Make Sense of the New Russia’ (with Stephen Whitefield)
• The Russian conquest of Central Asia, 1814-1907. Competitive emulation and the myth of the Great Game
• The taste of others: tourism and the internationalisation of Soviet cuisine.
• Why study with Russian and East European Studies at OSGA?
• The Power of the Presidents. Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman and Timothy Power win prize for the global comparison of presidential systems
• Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman, Svitlana Chernykh and Timothy Power present cross-regional findings
• The Presidential Toolkit
• Application Deadlines Released
• Introducing the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
• Policy of the Central Powers (Germany, Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria) in the Caucasus in 1918
• REES Academics Visit Moscow for Research and to Observe Events Related to the 100th Anniversary of the Great Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
• Prof Chris Davis on Lessons from the Economies of Russia, East Europe and China for Reform of North Korea and Korean Unification
• Georgia: a cultural journey through the Wardrop Collection
• Georgian Programme Film Screening
• GEORGIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2018
• Georgian Seminar Series: 'What did the Iranians and Russians ever do for the Georgians?'
• Georgian Seminar Series: The Image of ‘Animated’ Mountains in Medieval Georgian Paintings
• Georgian Studies Seminar Series: History, Heritage, and Perception
• Georgia and shifting political cleavages in Europe
• GEORGIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE 2017
• Israel Studies Seminar: Michaelmas Term 2018 Week 3: Israel - the Russian connection
• Codifying the 'laws and customs of war': Imperial Russia and the 1874 Brussels Conference
• Contested development: the Soviet Union in the competition for West Africa's modernity, 1955-1968
• EU-Russian relations: from the past to the future
• Is Russian foreign policy revisionist? Comparing approaches to Syria and Ukraine
• Authoritarianism as an institution: emulation among states in Central Asia
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• ‘Russian Brides’ and the Politics of National Reproduction in the People’s Republic of China
• The Social Costs of Reforms after the Rose Revolution in Georgia
• Academic and Royal Launch for Oxford’s ASEAN Institute Campaign
• Socialisms and Postsocialisms in a Global Context
• Statement on Behaviour
• Dan Healey, Professor of Modern Russian History, delivered the Annual Goldsmiths University Queer History Lecture for 2018
• The First Independent Republics in the Caucasus, 1918-21: A Centennial Workshop
• Xuejiao Li
• Dr Anna Pleshakova presents at the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Svetlogorsk, Russia
• Dr Nicolette Makovicky publishes new article in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
• Eurasia: from concept to reality
• New DPhil in Area Studies Launched at Oxford
• East European Politics: International Linkages and the Dynamic Conflict
• Dr. Nicolette Makovicky has published a new book 'Economies of Favour After Socialism'
• Prof Gwen Sasse on local politics in Ukraine.
• Prof Sasse contributes to an intriguing question about the use of referenda
• St Cross College Graduate Admissions Open Day
• A Step Toward Greater Transparency in Ukraine
• Prof Dan Healey on queer memory work in the former Soviet Union
• Part-time Departmental Lecturer in East European Politics
• Prof Sasse contributes to the question of populism.
• Prof Sasse's monthly blog contribution to Strategic Europe
• Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowships 2017
• Dr. Anna Pleshakova awarded a TDEP grant
• Associate Professorship of Russian and Eurasian Political Economy
• Prof Sasse's latest blog for Carnegie Europe
• Prof Christopher Davis
• Newton International Fellowships 2017
• Dr Janey Messina joins SIAS
• SIAS Careers Day
• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
• New Departmental Lecturer in REES
• Russia’s Long Century: Identity, Empire, and Nationhood - Call for Papers.
• Statement in support of Central European University
• New publication in Political Studies by Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield
• New Publication by Christopher Davis: The Ukraine Crisis and Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relationships with Europe and Asia
• Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
• Prof Dan Healey on the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
• (POST)SOCIALISMS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: a new WIP group, starting MT 2017
• Judith Pallot discussing her book on BBC Radio 4
• REES Alumni Event
• Dr Chaisty published a new article on public attitudes towards nationalism in Putin’s Russia
• Former REES MSc Student publishes in Laboratorium
• Dr Chaisty published a new article on presidential coalitions in Ukraine
• Dr Paul Chaisty awarded British Academy/Leverhulme grant to study 2018 Russian presidential elections
• Macmillan Coffee Morning
• Dan Healey launches investigation into Homophobia in Eurasia
• Dr Anna Pleshakova gave a keynote lecture at ConCort 2017
• Dr Anna Pleshakova publishes chapter on cognitive approaches to media analysis
• Professor Christopher J. Gerry publishes an article on Reforming voluntary drug insurance in Russian healthcare
• Professor Christopher J. Gerry publishes in Social Science Indicators
• Professor Roy Allison on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week programme
• Professor Roy Allison visited Uzbekistan during 8-12 November
• A wonderful collection of food and toiletries from SIAS staff and students for the Oxford Food Bank.
• Nicolette Makovicky has published the entries "Economies of Favours" and "Vernaculars of Informality" in the new open-access volume The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality.
• SIAS Winter Newsletter
• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
• Newton International Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 1st March 2018)
• The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
• Nicolette Makovicky has published the article Transhumant Pastoralism in Poland: Contemporary challenges
• REES Professor Paul Chaisty publishes a new book on ‘Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective’
• Dr Pleshakova publishes new article
• Academic Visits to Moscow in Early 2018: Activities, Observations on Contemporary Developments, and Plans for Research Out to 2020
• Dan Healey speaks at Dotyk International Queer History Festival, Minsk, Belarus
• Paul Chaisty lectures at Moscow State University, the Moscow Higher School of Economics and the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration in May/April 2018.
• Prof Paul Chaisty publishes a new article.
• Professor Roy Allison speaks at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in cooperation with the Parliament of Georgia
• Professor Gwendolyn Sasse co-edits a special issue of the journal 'Post-Soviet-Affairs'
• Professor Gwendolyn Sasse sets up new Research Centre in Berlin
• REES alumnus Antony Kalashnikov (MPhil in REES 2013-2015), currently studying for the DPhil in History at Oxford, has had two articles based on his MPhil thesis research published.
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018/2019 - Expression of Interest Deadline 31/08/2018
• Professor Roy Allison and Dr Anna Pleshakova have won an OPEN grant
• REES Alumnus starts new Associate Consultant position at Atlantic Media
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• Dr Nicolette Makovicky has published a new book: Slogans: Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism
• Georgian Studies Conference 2019
• lchester Lecture 2016 - II. 'Quote the Poets Ever More'. Micro-Analysing Intertextual Gems by Akhmatova, Khodasevich and Mandelshtam
• Aesthetic and Artistic Development of Reality: The Discourse on Folk Aesthetic in Advice Literature in the Late Soviet Era
• Knowledge, Voices and Cures on Chekhov's Sakhalin Island
• What's Going on in Russia?
• Bellingshausen, Antartica, and Global Warming
• POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC MIGRANT REMITTANCES: CONTENT, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND IMPACTS
• Nicholas II Confined: War, Nation and Revolution, March 1917 - July 1918
• Equals before the law?
• Dostoevsky, Zoshchenko and the transformation of criminal voices in 1930s Gulag propaganda
• The Russian Novel in the 21st Century
• Public speaking and political culture in late Imperial Russia
• Moldova presidential elections 30 October: patronal politics and varying vectors
• A usable past in a global world: the case of Russia
• Bare life in the Chernobyl zone: food, health and reproduction in the Soviet nuclear aftermath
• When informal institutions change: institutional reforms and informal practices in the former Soviet Union
• Parts of a circle: a film history of the roots of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict
• Lenin's Gulag hospitals: caring for prisoners on the Solovetsky Islands in the 1920s
• Sex at the border: the traffic in women in Imperial Russia’s Western borderlands, 1875-1910
• Solidarity and its poetics, or How literature informs Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar political relations
• The bivocal nation: memory and identity on the edge of empire
• Russia and the post-2014 international order: revisionism, Realpolitik and regime change
• Book Launch
• Russian approaches to international law
• Status in Russian foreign policy
• Questioning Putin's popularity
• Russian cyber operations: disruption, deception, and discord
• Russian economic and military relations with Europe and Asia: balances, partnerships and economic warfare
• Russian gas exports to Europe: the 'weapon' that never was
• Who is Mr Navalny?
• Book Launch: Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890-1928
• State of surprise?
• Brexit and its aftermath: a perspective from Russia
• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
• SIAS Careers Day
• Life of a charismatic object under and after Stalin: the victory banner 1945-64
• Putin: Constructions of US-Russia relations in US television
• Deterrence or backlash? Testing the effect of repression on the violence in the North Caucasus
• Research Methods for Multimodal Communication and Discourse Analyses
• Viewpoint Blending in Russian and International Media
• REES alumnus Eline Helmer (MSc 2014-15) wins a research paper competition
• Picturing the Red Army's demobilisation: the visual image of demobilisation and the construction of official war memory
• Cold War and Peaceful Coexistence on the Red Carpet: the USSR and Western Film Festivals (1946-1962)
• Caught between Realpolitik and ideology: the Soviet Union, the East European bloc states and the Horn of Africa in the Cold War
• Citizens with Rights, or Crazed Hysterics? 'Believers' in the Soviet Imaginary Post-1945
• Russia’s Long Century: Identity, Empire, and Nationhood
• Current and Future Economies of Russia and Eurasia
• A Friendship Forged by War: The Transnational Legacy of the Soviet Liberation of Czechoslovakia, 1945-1991
• Clashing Visions: Russian Foreign Policy in the Age of Xi
• Joseph Stalin, Film Star: Cinema and the Postwar Stalin Cult
• Living Revolutionary Dreams: Utopia and the Vanguard of 1917
• Dmitry Likhachev and the dilemmas of Russian Cultural Nationalism
• The Radical Right in Revolutionary Russia
• From Leningrad to Leninfall: The Geopolitics of Soviet Monuments 100 Years since the Russian Revolution
• Children of revolution: Armageddon experienced?
• Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
• (Post)socialisms in a Global Context
• Georgian Seminar Series: The Construction of Royal/Imperial Authority in Georgia and Byzantium in the Age of Davit IV and Alexios I Komnenos, ca. 1081–1125
• Seducing the West: selling Soviet revolution through prison socialism
• The Russian Revolution in Global Perspective: The First Decade
• (Post)socialisms in a Global Context
• Feeling Revolution: Cinema and the Emancipation of the Soviet Senses
• Film Screening: 9 Years of Displacement
• Building Autocracy from Above and Below: Emotional Engagement and Politics after Crimea
• Disrupted Democracy in Ukraine? Protest, Performance and Contention in the Verkhovna Rada
• Socialisms and Postsocialisms in a Global Context
• Health and Well-being in Russia: New Approaches, New Challenges
• BOOK LAUNCH: Russian Homophobia: from Stalin to Sochi
• The Challenge to Growth in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
• After 20 Years: Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights
• Ethnic Hierarchy in the Russian Labour Market
• Ethnic representation in the republics of post-Soviet Russia: agency-driven and structural factors
• Mobilizing under Uncertainty: From Fleeing to Fighting in Wartime Abkhazia
• How autocracy impedes de-securitization, or why democracy matters: the case of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Russia and the Middle East: Putin's Balancing Act
• Health, Well-being and the Labour market: the Case of Elderly Russians
• The Influence (and limits) of Russia's Strategic Narrative during 'Information Wars' in Ukraine
• Oxford Conference: Ukraine: Hope for the future, or land of lost opportunity?
• Rival Power: Russia and South East Europe
• The intractable drivers of Russian foreign policy and strategic divergence in the Arctic
• Cultural Responses to the War in Ukraine
• Vladimir Sharov's 'Rehearsals' (1986-88; trans. 2018): Panel Discussion
• The autocrat's dilemma: domestic terrorism and the divided electorate in Russia
• Global University Rankings and the Quest for National Sovereignty
• Workshop with Dr Tomasz Rakowski, University of Warsaw: Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography: Uncovering alternative social histories through fieldwork
• Psychiatry, Dissent and the Art of Diagnosis after Stalin
• Screenings of Georgian women’s films at the Taylor Institution
• Vasily Grossman's 'Stalingrad': Censorship and Speaking Silences
• Postcoloniality and russophone women's writing from the Caucaus and Central Asia
• REES's Dr Makovicky discussing 'School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia'
• The Lost Revolution: Transformations of the Revolutionary Narrative in Russian Films since the 1960s
• Elliott Lecture - From Cold War to Hot Peace: an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
• The Contradiction of the Russian Revolution: Leninism, Violence, and Identity, 1918-1938
• Georgian Studies Seminar Series: The Perils of History: Recurring Patterns in Georgian Politics
• Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
• Rich Russians: From Oligarchs to Bourgeoisie
• Elite persistence during transition from plan to market: evidence from Russia
• What ordinary Russians want from Putin's fourth term, and the prospects of them getting it
• Work in transition: automation, demographics, migration and skills
• The end of the transition or the beginning of the new one?
• Political liberalism after the Cold War: critical perspectives from Eastern Europe
• Sanctions and the Russian economy
• Masculinity, precarity and the moral economies of post-socialism: working-class men in contemporary Russia
• Georgian Language Classes
• Rising to the challenge of cardiovascular mortality in Russia: preliminary results from a 360 degree assessment
• Vacancies
• Ivo Walinga
• REES graduate working on a research project on climate and the environment in China
• REES Director, Professor Christopher Gerry, was recently a guest of the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.
• Prof Chaisty comments on the prospects for constitutional reform in Ukraine.
• IR Research Colloquium: Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
• REES alumnus elected to the Armenian Parliament
• Call for Contributions: Moral Dimensions of Economic Life in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia, St Antony’s College, Oxford, March 20-21st, 2019.
• Carolin Heilig
• Performance and Queer Histories: From Shakespeare to Tchaikovsky and Marc Almond
• OSGA Featured News Article: The Burden of Inequality
• Sos Avetisyan
• Uncertain ground: engaging with Europe's breakaway territories
• Mother Tongue/ Родная речь
• Histories of Religion and Homophobia in Eurasia conference
• REES MPhil First Year Student Lincoln Pigman publishes in The Washington Post's The Monkey Cage blog.
• The Annual Georgian Programme Conference of Oxford’s Russian and East European Studies (REES)
• Connecting Central Asia in the 21st Century
• The Moral Dimensions of Economic Life in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
• Dr David Maziashvili
• Dr Irina Lobzhanidze
• The Moral Dimensions of Economic Life: Cross-Regional Perspectives
• When does Vladimir Putin's Russia send in troops?
• Dr Ana Kirvalidze
• Research on Russian policy in the Middle East
• REES Careers Event 2019
• Russian Street Art between self-expression, commercialization and politics
• 2019 International Politics Summer School announced
• Queer Studies in Central Asia: activists and scholars explore the development of LGBT community in post-Soviet republics
• Redefining the family in 19th-century Russia: debates in law and literature
• Towards a new portrait of Gogol
• Stalinist perpetrators on trial: a discussion of Lynne Viola's study of the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
• Late Stalinism: the aesthetics of politics
• More than a memory war: the legacy of the Gulag in today's Russia
• OSGA online journal is launched
• OSGA participates in Area Studies Conference at Peking University
• Vacancy at REES
• Roundtable on the Ukrainian Presidential Elections
• Language policies of Russia and its republics: problems, ideologies, compromises
• OSGA participates in Area Studies Conference at Peking University
• Documentary screening: Robert Sturua’s Julius Caesar
• The Soviet Military Doctors during the Afghan War (1979-1989). A Reconfiguration of Gender Representations and Practices?
• Histories of Religion and Homophobia in Eurasia Conference
• Prof Chris Gerry receives award in Oxford Student Union's Teaching Awards 2019
• Ukrainian Elections Roundtable Event
• No revolution of dignity for Ukraine’s judges: post-Maidan judicial reforms
• Paul Chaisty publishes new article on "The political implications of popular support for presidential term limits in Russia".
• Russia’s Compatriots: Instrument or Responsibility?
• The History of Translation of Shakespeare in Georgia
• Subaltern Russians on the edge of empire
• REES Alumnus successfully defends DPhil
• 20 years of Putin: How has Russia Changed?
• Dr Makovicky has been awarded a network initiation grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
• Social Cohesion in Multicultural and Multiethnic Georgian society
• Georgian Manuscripts and Epigraphic Tradition: Search for Identity in the Middle Ages
• REES Alumnus Michal Šimečka elected to European Parliament
• The Oxford Georgian Translation Project: Continuing the Wardrops’ Legacy
• REES Conferences
• Dr Mihail Chiru's Publications
• New Georgian Fellows appointed for 2020-21
• 'Meeting Gorbachev' Film screening and Q & A with director Andre Singer and Archie Brown
• Strangers on the Eastern Front: Sino-Russian refugees in war and revolution
• Pop music from stagnation to perestroika: how economic reform destroyed East European cultural networks
• Georgian Language Classes
• When do experts trump politicians? Attitudes towards technocracy in nine European and Latin American democracies.
• Queer Russian asylum-seekers in Germany: worthy refugees and acceptable forms of harm?
• Mass Housing in the Soviet Union: Industrial Architecture and its socialist life
• Party cues and referendum voting in Eastern Europe
• Performance Failures or Representation Gaps? Formation and Appeals of New Political Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
• REES Alumnus to join OECD's Global Relations Secretariat
• Changing Global Economic-Military Power Balances and Ideologies, Russia’s Defence Economics, and Economic Sanctions on Russia
• Aleksandr Tvardovskii and Russian national consciousness
• Settled state? Refugees, resettlement and the definition of Soviet Armenia
• The evolution of Greater Eurasia: geopolitical imaginaries in Russian foreign policy
• Transformation of Shakespeare’s Tyrants and Anti-Tyrants in Soviet and Post-Soviet Georgia and Around the World
• A very ambiguous empire: Russia's hybrid exceptionalism
• Armenia and Azerbaijan: theorizing rivalry in the Eurasian borderlands
• Raising the Velvet Curtain Slovak literature and society since 1989
• Georgian Fellow Irina Lobzhanidze digitises Wardrop manuscript
• Launch of the new International Multimodal Communication Centre (IMCC)
• Shakespeare in Georgia Exhibition, Seminar, Screening
• REES Student Induction 2019
• International Multimodal Communication Centre Research Seminar
• International Multimodal Communication Centre Research Seminar
• Former REES MPhil Student is selected for the forthcoming parliamentary elections
• Comparing authoritarian practices: Belarus and Azerbaijan
• ‘Experiment on Ourselves:’ Collective housing, Self-Help Construction and Self-Management in Youth Residential Complex (MZhK) Housing Movement in the Late-Soviet Russia, 1969-1992
• What is a kraevedcheskie museum? History of the largest (post-) Soviet museum network.
• Alison Smith
• Dr Magali Delaloye
• Jan Koura
• Second year MPhil student researching foreign policy decision-making in Russia and the role of elites
• Emily Tamkin
• REES Alumna Emily Tamkin publishes new book
• OSGA Global Forum: 50 Years of Dependency and Development: Challenges and Risks to Democracy Then and Now
• Second year MPhil student researching identity negotiation and conceptualisations of the ‘homeland’ among first and second generation migrants from the former Yugoslavia in Switzerland
• Second year MPhil student researching the relationship between regime type and digital authoritarianism: The Cases of Russia, Hungary, and Germany
• Second year MPhil student researching the influence of the Russo-Ukrainian war on nation branding in Ukraine
• REES Alumna publishes in Women's Studies International Forum
• Screening with introduction: Shakespeare’s Richard III at the Rustaveli Theatre Company of Tbilisi, Georgia
• International Multimodal Communication Centre Research Seminar
• Recognised Students
• Take Georgian Language classes at OSGA
• Political machines at work: electoral subversion in the Russian workplace
• The neo-nomenklatura system in Russia: how it looks, how it feels
• Lives, Deaths and Noses: the ‘essential’ stories of Gogol and Tolstoy
• A Cultural Cold War Front? The USA, the USSR, and UNESCO
• ONGC Visiting Fellowships and Grants
• Second year MPhil student researching civic protests in Russia
• Second year MPhil student researching gender equality in the Ukrainian Armed Forces
• Ellie Martus (nee Hitchcock)
• REES Alumnus appointed Lecturer in Public Policy in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University, Australia
• Jessie Hronesova
• "There are no bad nations, there are only bad people": Ethnically mixed families and everyday peace-building in Abkhazia
• '20 Years of Putin' Conference great success
• Anna Davis
• Leandra Bias
• REES Professor Paul Chaisty speaking on BBC News
• Tertium Datur:Multi-Attribute Reference Points and Integration Choices between the EU and Eurasian Economic Union
• Russian organised crime under Putin – and after him
• The Future of Area Studies Roundtable
• Second year MPhil student researching the role of Russian international identity in the creation and continuity of Russia’s foreign policy behavior in the CIS since the early 1990s
• New Kremlinology: the challenge of understanding and studying elite politics in Russia
• Socialisms and Postsocialisms in a Global Context forum
• Socialisms and Postsocialisms in a Global Context forum
• Comparative Economics
• ‘Shakespeare in Georgia’
• Dr Tamara Pataridze
• Dr Salome Tsopurashvili
• New blog about Vladimir Putin’s constitutional reforms
• 'The Caucasus : Oil, Conflicts and Struggle for Independence' course available
• Dr David Tinikashvili
• Taxes and trust: from coercion to compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
• Party people: electoral candidates, party change and party system evolution in Central and Eastern Europe
• Kosovo Divided: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Struggle for a State
• Health Politics in Romania
• Voter mobilisation as a strategy of electoral manipulation in Russia's regional elections
• Dr David Maziashvili speaking on Georgian Public Broadcasting
• Democratic backsliding in the EU enlargement region
• Schumpeterian Entry: Innovation, Exporting, and Growth Aspirations of Entrepreneurs
• Reaching the converted: understanding the methods of informant enrolment in East Germany
• Social capital and the housing renovations programme in Russia
• Dr Nicolette Makovicky publishes a new article
• South East Europe in Russia’s geopolitical objectives
• REES Careers Event Success
• Congratulations to former REES Student
• Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems
• Ali Lantukh
• Loyal soldiers or seasoned leaders? The selection of committee chairs in the European Parliament
• National Games for Local Gains: Legislative Activity, Party Organization and Candidate Selection
• Professors Paul Chaisty (REES/DPIR) and Timothy Power (Head of OSGA) are awarded the 2019 Robert Elgie best paper prize by the Presidential Politics Group of the European Consortium of Political Research
• IMCC website launch and upcoming events
• REES Teaching Associate Dr Barbara Piotrowska publishes new article 'The Price of Collaboration: How Authoritarian States Retain Control'
• Peter Paine
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for Dr Barbara Piotrowska
• Student Experience
• Dr Nicolette Makovicky and Dr Robin Smith publish a special article for the journal Social Analysis
• Dr Nicolette Makovicky has published the post Common Decency in the Populist Era in Anthropology News
• The national(ist) necropolitics of masks
• Dr David Maziashvili publishes new article `Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on the Georgian Stage'
• Marija Norkunaite
• Professor Roy Allison publishes new article in 'Europe-Asia Studies' Journal
• Jamie Edwards
• Anna Davidson MSc Student, 2019-2020
• Kamila Godzinska MPhil Student, 2018-2020
• Research on democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe and the transnational cooperation of populist radical right parties
• REES welcomes a new Leverhulme Research Fellow
• REES Alumni Nicole Grajewski discusses conflict in the South Caucasus
• Post-Communist Economies published an article of relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic by Chris Davis, Senior Research Fellow of REES
• The Resilience of the Vory-v-Zakone in the 20th Century
• Forced Displacement from Ukraine’s War-Torn Territories: Intersectionality and Power Geometry
• The Welfare State and Social Entrepreneurship: A Model of Solidarity
• All People
• Dr Maria Kaneva
• RESC Monday Seminar Series
• The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity
• Coming In: Sexuality Politics and EU Accession in Serbia
• The New Party Challenge: Party Politics in Central Europe and Beyond
• Covid-19 mobilities, blockages and changing transnational practices of East European migrants in Northern Ireland
• Barter in business: Making money without cash in the Croatian wine sector
• 'Political Economy of Natural Resources and Rentier States' Course now Open for Registration
• European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) release new analysis written by REES' Dr Leila Alieva
• Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield publish new research on the electoral success of Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Servant of the People’ Party
• Jan Farfal
• Article 'Fragile interdependence: the case of Russia-EU relations' by former REES graduate Huawei Zheng
• Presentation by REES Georgian Studies Fellow Dr Tamar Pataridze
• Webinar with Professor Chris Gerry, REES Programme Director
• REES Alumnus Antti Rauhala's OECD Report
• Paul Chaisty's Publications
• Leverhulme Lecture: Authoritarian innovations in Eastern-Central Europe?
• Russia's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
• The Growth of Russian Influence in Africa
• REES alumnus Alexandre Gianasso appointed a Commercial Manager at the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
• Leverhulme Visiting Professor Dr Agnieszka Koscianska publishes new book
• ‘A woman should follow her own conscience’: Understanding Catholic involvement in demonstrations against the abortion ban in Poland
• Left, Right, no Center: Radical Nationalism and Youth Activism in Contemporary Europe
• On Emancipatory Blackness in Central and Southeast Europe
• Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies
• Event series for postgraduate students led by the Social Sciences Division
• Staying out of trouble: criminal cases against Russian mayors
• United by the state: the social roots of authoritarian power in Russia
• What kind of firms get government support in Russia? The analysis of priority change during crises
• Blame attribution and the politics of Covid in Russia
• Flying with the stars: performance, loyalty, and awards in the Soviet air force during WWII
• Guillaume Minea-Pic
• Gender and Sexuality Studies Under Attack in Central-Eastern Europe
• New REES Publications!
• Village Fascists of the post-socialist European Union: what makes them different?
• Who are the Protesters in Belarus?
• The consolidation of authoritarian rule in rural Hungary: workfare and the shift from penal populist to illiberal paternalist poverty governance
• *Event Cancelled* Ahmed, the Megaphone, and the Assembly of New Political Subjects
• “Like a game of RisiKo”: tacticising a water war in the Balkan Mountains
• Power: what does it mean for states, markets, and society?
• REES Alumna Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek's CEPA Report
• Depictions of Post-COVID-19 Futures in Russian International Media: Multimodal Viewpoint Analysis
• Depictions of Post-COVID-19 Futures in Russian International Media: Multimodal Viewpoint Analysis
• Space: How is society being geographically reconfigured?
• Russia and the Arab Uprisings
• Gender and Infrastructure: Intersections between Postsocialist and Postcolonial Geographies
• Socialist Sexualities: Expert Knowledge and Intimate Revolutions in Poland and Czechoslovakia
• ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence with author Dr Agnieszka Kościańska
• Pre-empting miscalculation between NATO, Russia, and Belarus
• Love and Sex Behind the Iron Curtain: What Can We Learn from the Experience
• Dr Mihail Chiru's new article: Electoral incentives for territorial representation in the European Parliament
• Europe and the United States Have Enabled Kleptocracy. Now They Have to Get Serious About Fighting It
• From synergy to discord? The future of the Sino-Russian status partnership
• Covid-19 and Political Support in Russia
• Georgia's Europeanization: performative games and peculiarities of ‘enforced socialization’
• REES DPhil Anna J. Davidson awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship with The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
• REES' Dr Agnieszka Koscianska interviewed for The Fourcast
• Beyond the Boom: Toward Human and Social Development in the Post-Oil Era in Azerbaijan
• Gender, the economy of care and sustainable development in Azerbaijan
• Challenges of building a knowledge society
• Rural Azerbaijan: land reforms, migration, and moral economy in the post-Soviet period
• Private sector development and sustainability issues in post-oil Azerbaijan
• Child wellbeing and child savings accounts in Azerbaijan: theory and possible policy design
• The petroleumscape of Baku: past, present and the implications for the future
• Dostoevsky at 200: a roundtable
• A conversation with poet and prose-writer Maria Stepanova
• Gender, Pleasure & Violence: a book talk at the University of Maryland
• Back to the Armchair? Research ethics during the COVID-19 pandemic
• REES Affiliate Dr Leila Alieva on panel at 'A Place for Oil' conference
• REES DPhil candidate Marija Norkunaite awarded grant from The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
• Russia and the Arab Spring
• New publication by Dr Agnieszka Koscianska
• A new monograph 'Shakespeare’s Postmodernism' by Prof. David Maziashvili
• Vaccine diplomacy and the geopolitics of influence
• Leverhulme Fellowship awarded to Professor Dan Healey for study of Stalin’s Gulag and its Medical Staff
• Readiness and resilience of the health systems of the UK and Russia during Covid-19 epidemics in 2020-2021: impacts of priorities, shortages and rationing
• To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education
• REES MSc student Tina Maglakelidze receives a Fulbright Award
• REES, in conversation with……Dr Agnieszka Kościańska, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
• REES MSc student Theresa Lütkefend's report on veterans in Ukraine
• REES Alumnus Pierre Thévenin's new article on Soviet and Russian approaches to the international law of the sea
• Educating Sex. Under Socialism and After
• Chiara Lovotti
• IMCC researchers are co-mentoring 9 out of 12 fully-funded 'Google Summer of Code 2021' student projects
• New article: 'A Prominent Spy: Mehdi Ben Barka, Czechoslovak intelligence and Eastern Bloc espionage in the Third World during the Cold War'
• REESearch Café for REES DPhil Students
• Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
• Dr Nutsa Batiashvili
• Dr Irma Karaulashvili
• The Karabakh war: how Russia’s image has deteriorated in both Armenia and Azerbaijan
• Samizdat typists and the success of unofficial culture
• Stalin's activists: the rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine
• Race on trial: understanding sexualized racism in socialist and postsocialist Poland
• Did Soviet hippies kill the Soviet project? Reflections on the nature of the 'sistema' and the end of the USSR
• Dreams of a synaesthetic future: technologies of the deaf and blind in late Soviet Russia
• The strange afterlife of Prussia in the German Democratic Republic
• The 1923 party controversy: the fall of party democracy and the rise of Stalin
• 'Nash Krai', the journal of regional studies in Soviet Belarus (1923-1930): our region or our nation?
• Nationalistic Trends in Archaeology of the South Caucasus
• Xin Guan
• ‘Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014’
• Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2021
• Civil Resistance: How Ideas, Peoples, and Movements can change Politics
• Thursday Seminars
• REES DPhil Candidate Jan Farfal Santander Fellow
• Europeans through Georgian Eyes in the Past and An Anti-Catholic Treatise by Bessarion Orbelishvili (18th c.)
• Reimagining Revolution as an Oedipal Drama: Transformation of the Mother Figure in 1920s Soviet Georgian Revolutionary Films
• Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on the Georgian Stage
• Agency, Gender, and Citizenship in Belarusian Protests
• Stolen decades: the unfulfilled expectations of the Belarusian economic miracle
• Contemporary Belarus: twenty years on – a discussion of key developments
• Social Anthropology Seminar: To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education
• A Glimpse into the Ukrainian Far Right: Cases of the National Corps and the Right Sector
• In Conversation with Franak Viachorka, Senior Advisor to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
• Dr Jody La Porte
• Book Talk: History of Polish Sex Education
• To See a Moose - Leverhulme Lecture
• OSGA welcomes Professor Lenka Buštíková
• Congratulations to Dr Anna Wilson on John Fell OUP Research Grant
• How can stories, histories, art and music help comprehend a planet in crisis?
• “Dissidences sexuelles et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique; Sexual and Gender Dissent in the USSR and Post-Soviet Space”
• Special OSGA Lecture
• Who is Navalny? With Dr Ben Noble
• The Five Faces of Vladimir Putin: How Masculine Image Making has Served the Russian President
• Russia-Israel relations after the fall of Netanyahu
• Alexander Soldatkin
• Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek
• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s "Journey to Europe"
• Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness (Dedalus, 2024)
• Unlocking the Door (Cezanne, 2017)
• Alex MacFarlane
• Clifford Marcus
• Emily Tamkin
• Geoffrey Gosby
• Margaret Miller
• Ollie Matthews
• Walker Thompson
• A new article co-written by REES MPhil student David Saveliev
• Congratulations to Professor Christopher Gerry!
• The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia
• Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
• Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines
• A Modern History of Russian Childhood
• Russia Rising: Putin's Foreign Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
• Rentier Capitalism & Its Discontents. Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia
• Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?
• Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
• The New Kremlinology: Understanding Regime Personalization in Russia
• A new article by Agnieszka Kościańska, Agnieszka Kosiorowska and Natalia Pomian, “A woman should follow her own conscience”
• The Evolution of the Central Asian Order
• The Russian-Turkish Partnership: Fire and Ice
• The 2014 Ukraine crisis: regime security as a cause of conflict between great powers and small neighbours?
• Russian relations with the Gulf States
• Authoritarian Contagion: Central Asia and the International Politics of the Pandemic
• Russia and Global University Rankings
• Russian Strategic Culture and the Coloured Revolutions
• Small states and foreign policy: systemic constraints and domestic filters in Georgia's foreign policy
• REES Discussion Group
• "How Does the Ukraine Crisis Affect the Gulf" by Dr Diana Galeeva
• Dr Alieva awarded a Richard von Weizsacker fellowship at Robert Bosch Academy
• Call for papers for the 12th edition of the Genealogies of Memory conference History and Memory in International
• Roundtable on Ukraine
• Georgian Literature / Translation Project on ELN
• Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
• Statement on the Russian War against Ukraine
• Bryn Windsor MSc Student 2020-2021
• Guarding Sacred Objects: Care and Material Agency in Highland Svaneti
• The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences
• Competing identities of the past and future in Russia and Ukraine
• Russian public opinion and the impact of sanctions
• Animals, spirits and the state among nomadic Siberian reindeer herders
• The Crimean Tatars: the end of an ethnos?
• Unity in diversity or unity as sameness? Russia's cultural and political homogenisation
• Yhyakh, a Siberian summer festival: historical and contemporary transformations
• Tradition and modernity in Soviet-era Kyrgyz and Latvian documentary film
• Translating Anna Nerkagi and Yuri Rytkheu
• "People, Not Ideology": On the struggle for LGBTQ rights in Poland
• Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland
• The Grave Political Consequences of “Pragmatic” Energy Interests
• Putin's Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here's what that means
• REES MPhil student David Saveliev's new article
• REES DPhil candidate Anna J. Davis’ new OBO Policy Brief on ‘Implications of the Russian Occupation of Civil Nuclear Sites in Ukraine’
• 21st Annual Aleksanteri Conference THE NEW ERA OF INSECURITY: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Changes the World
• Gender Wars: East and South
• Elizabeth Teague OBE
• Georgia in Europe and the Wider World: The Inaugural Georgia-Oxford Forum
• War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference
• Book Launch: Political Party Membership in New Democracies, Dr Alison F. Smith
• Dr Makovicky and Prof Kościańska (University of Warsaw) have received AHRC funding for Gender Wars: East and South
• Dr Magdalena Solska
• Dr Andre Thiemann
• Dr Marcin Ślarzyński
• Inaugural Annual Georgia-Oxford Forum
• ENC Analysis – Music, Underground Art, and the “Realpolitik” Dilemma: A Vision of the Future?
• Rent Distribution Modes in Azerbaijan and Belarus: Implications for the Opposition
• War as a sign of weakness: Failure of reforms and of reframing the Russian nation
• RESC Emeritus Professor Archie Brown evaluates the life and achievements of Mikhail Gorbachev in today’s Guardian
• Dr David Maziashvili’s new monograph "Shakespeare's Postmodernism" nominated for the "Saba" 20th Literary Award
• Dr Muzaffer Kutlay
• Paul Thomas
• Dr Nicolette Makovicky has published the policy paper Migrants and Taxes. Challenges of fiscal inclusion in the digital age, co-authored with Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol of the Work Rights Centre.
• Petr Masherau: from partisan to party leader in Soviet Belarus
• White gold, reaped and sown: Tajikistan’s cotton monoculture across the Soviet divide
• Exploiting Khrushchev's thaw: power struggles in Soviet Latvia
• Ukrainian long-distance nationalism and history writing during the Cold War: canvassing the blind spots
• A tale of pineapples and palm trees: how the Soviet atomic city of Shevchenko became the Kazakh oil town of Aqtau(1980s-2010s)
• The legacy of Soviet institutions in post-Soviet Ukraine
• The impact of the full-scale invasion on journalism in Ukraine
• 'Genocide is taking place in our country!' Kyiv's revival Baptists and the religious Cold War, 1960s to 1980s
• The launch of the new AHRC Research Network Gender Wars: East and South
• The End of Adaptive Authoritarianism in Russia?
• REES Alumnus Jonathan Raspe's article 'Soviet National Autonomy in the 1920s: The Dilemmas of Ukraine’s Jewish Population'
• Dr Agnieszka Kościańska
• Building the next generation of Russia experts
• Explaining Russia’s war against Ukraine
• Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War
• REES/RESC Emeritus Professor Dan Healey discusses Russian homophobia on TV-Rain channel
• Ukrainian Cultures Reading Group established at RESC
• The future of the Russian political system: scenarios and prospects
• Russia, Ukraine and state survival through neutrality by Professor Roy Allison
• The Singing Revolution: film-screening and post-film discussion
• Liberal Practices and Conservative Global Knowledge Flows: A Roundtable
• Always Under Siege: Political Rituals of Local Right-Wing Voluntary Organizations in Poland since 2005
• REES DPhil Candidate, Anna J. Davis, on making her teaching flexible and inclusive, and the positive benefits it has had for her students
• The New Black Sea: How the War in Ukraine is Reshaping the Region
• Identity and citizenship from the bottom up in Crimea and Moldova
• The Kazakh Spring and waves of mobilization in Kazakhstan
• Has the Russian invasion finished off the Ukrainian oligarchy?
• Trust, political participation, and the stability of Russia's regime
• Underestimating Ukraine and overestimating Russia: one year on from the full-scale invasion
• Political effects of natural resources and petro-authoritarianism
• Gender Wars: East and South
• Sofia Borushkina
• Elia Bescotti
• The lives and afterlives of a Ukrainian songwriter: Volodymyr Ivasiuk and the crisis of Soviet order
• Artistic dissent in Ukraine and geopolitics of sexuality and gender
• Art and language during the war
• Archiving against erasure: guerilla preservation in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine
• Kharkiv School of Photography
• From Soviet enculturation to recent night economies: Kyiv club cultures in the late 1980s-2010s
• Uzbekistan in a changing Central Asia: regional and international implications
• Arrested development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea and Mali, 1955-1968
• Dr Shota Matitashvili
• Dr Giorgi Cheishvili
• Understanding Public Opinion in Ukraine Prior to and Amidst Russia’s Aggression: A Cross-Survey Analysis
• War and the Future of Europe
• Ivan Gunjic
• Dr Nino Kavtaria
• Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield publish new research on the Russian 2020 constitutional vote
• Russia's Political Future: War, Regime Transformation and Change
• Dr Marnie Howlett on 'Talking History' discussing the history and making of modern Ukraine
• President Yushchenko of Ukraine: Two Decades from the Orange Revolution
• Shifting narratives: Archives, Queerness, and Violence
• LGBTQ in a Time of War: The Queer History of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
• Ukrainian farmers are war heroes: food sovereignty, solidarity initiatives and everyday bravery in rural Ukraine
• 'Where are we with the war on Ukraine?'
• Beekeeping with/out borders in Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania: voluminous socialities in (un)making Carpathian Honeybee territory
• Oil City in Black and White: oil and memory in the urban regeneration of Baku
• Where the apricots grow: memories from the east of Ukraine
• Environmental temporalities in contemporary visual art from Central Asia
• Infrastructure, resource-making and slow violence along the Middle Corridor
• The West and Russia's wars: Why norms and psychology matter as much as military strength
• Vilnius: a city in translation
• Stories from Saba: Selected Fables from The Book of Wisdom and Lies
• Information Structure in Georgian, by Geoffrey Gosby (2016)
• The Second Georgia-Oxford Forum
• Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and Stalinist Culture of Time
• Jo Shortt Butler
• Leigh Morris
• Giles Humphreys-Evans
• The Oxford Georgian Translation Project
• REES Alumni Huawei Zheng's new role at the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies
• Against the liberal order: the Soviet Union, Turkey, and statist internationalism, 1919-1939
• Arrested development: the Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
• Cold War correspondents: Soviet and American reporters on the ideological frontlines
• 'We know what war is': soldiers and veterans in the Soviet 'fight for peace', c. 1955-65
• Solidarity as pain: Soviet documentary film and the Vietnam war
• Soviet gender policies: from the past to future repercussions
• The British and the Bolsheviks in Transcaspia: nomad-state relations in comparative perspective
• The politics of 'nyet': how the Soviet state reformed transnational migration, 1960-1990
• Clientelism and nationality in an early Soviet fiefdom: the trials of Nestor Lakoba
• Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order
• The Soviet Union and the construction of the global market
• Congratulations to Dr Anna Wilson and Dr Puma Shen and the rest of the UK-Taiwan project team on winning the ESRC-NSTC grant to fund the project "Information Threats to Democratic Societies of UK and Taiwan: Interdisciplinary Approaches"!
• Dr Mustafa Izzuddin
• REES DPhil candidate, Anna J. Davis, selected as Grímsson Fellow
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Nagorny Karabakh: The Consequences of International Inaction
• "How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war"
• Dr Dimitar Bechev
• Feminist resistances in Latin America and Europe
• Weikang Zhang (张韦康)
• The Future of Transnistria: A Regional Perspective
• Reading and discussion with the Ukrainian writer Kateryna Babkina
• At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia
• Cole Anselmo
• Natalie Navarrete
• Eliska Vinklerova
• Paulina Bogusz
• Sophia Maisashvili
• Alastair Addison
• J R Neumeier
• Isaac Holmberg
• Saskia Laufer
• The invisible minorities of the Balkans: Challenges and prospects
• Stalin: winning the war, losing the peace?
• Professor Michael Rochlitz
• Old Roads and New Routes: Exploring Ethnographic Perspectives on Geopolitical Shifts in Eastern Europe
• Medieval Georgia Between the Middle East and Byzantium
• De-colonising the Azerbaijan-Armenian Conflict
• Why the Russian constitution matters: the dark arts of constitutional law
• The curse of Empire: Russia’s war against Ukraine
• Prof. David Maziashvili awarded Dante Alighieri Gold Medal and Honorary Diploma for staging Contemporary Ballet "Beatrice"
• The Arctic: environmental casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war
• 'Blood on the Snow' by Professor Robert Service - just published
• New Publication: ‘Playing with fire’: implications of Russia’s Occupation of Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plants for the global nuclear order by Anna J. Davis
• If you do not change your behaviour: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule
• The Authoritarian International
• (No)where to return: Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania
• Professional indulgences: British service providers, postcommunist elites, and the enabling of kleptocracy
• Out of Stalin’s Shadow: Writing the New Georgia
• Conference report: Ukraine’s recovery: rebuilding with research
• Dr Teona Lomsadze
• Multimodal analysis of disinformation and misinformation
• Productive Sexological Self-Censorship in Late Communist Poland between State and Church
• The estate origins of democracy in Russia: from imperial bourgeoisie to post-communist middle class
• Mobilizing in uncertainty: collective identities and war in Abkhazia
• Domestic violence in Russia: shocks or historical legacies?
• Putin and Ideology
• Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili
• Professor Paul Chaisty
• Nicolette Makovicky
• Lisa Haynes
• Professor Dan Healey
• Megi Kartsivadze
• Talia Kollek
• Professor Roy Allison
• Professor Judith Pallot
• Dr Alex Pravda
• Professor Robert Service
• Dr Anna Wilson
• Dr Leila Alieva
• Dr Zbig Wojnowski
• Dr Anna Wilson of REES and IMCC has published in co-authorship two articles
• Why Putin is the product of Russian democracy
• The Third Oxford-Georgia Forum
• Russian and East European Studies: Use of cookies on this website
• Global Initiatives Grant Report – Tax, Society, and People – Using anthropology to teach young people about tax
• Russia and Iran – new publication by REES alumna Dr Nicole Grajewski
• Dr Mihail Chiru
• Dr Stephen Hall
• Dr Katherine A New
• Lia Chokoshvili
• Dr Irina Demetradze-Renz
• Dr Othon Anastasakis
• Ukraine’s Controversial New Plan to Enlist More Soldiers
• An interview about the latest drone attacks on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
• A look behind the curtain of the Soviet dictatorship: a study of oral testimonies and documents by the former chairman of the KGB (1961-1967) Vladimir Semichastnyi
• Why was the Soviet famine of 1946-7 the most severe in the Moldavian SSR? Preliminary conclusions based on Chișinău, Kyiv and Moscow archives
• Book Launch: Volume III of the Global Encyclopaedia of Informality
• Russia: Towards a war economy
• Gender Wars Conference
• Understanding the appeal of victimhood politics in Serbia
• Making the Golden Horde ‘great again’: historians as memory actors and reinterpretation of the historical narratives in independent Kazakhstan
• Re-harmonizing value in a Siberian shamanic ritual: Gabriel Tarde and post-Soviet national revival
• Fragmented allegiances: exploring the complex terrain of youth participation in Poland’s right-wing events
• Imperial traces in post-socialist spaces: a conjunctural exploration of inter-imperiality in the Silesian borderland
• Professor Dan Healey, discussing his 'Gulag Doctors' book with Professor Polly Jones
• Dr Marnie Howlett
• World futures through RT’s eyes: multimodal dataset and interdisciplinary methodology
• Roundtable and Discussions on the Upheaval in Georgia
• Soft power lessons from Russia’s war: How to overcome polarisation and strengthen liberal democracy
• Congratulations to REES' Dr Marnie Howlett on Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Research Grant
• AER General Assembly & Bureau Meeting 8th Black Sea Summit
• To Return or Not? Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of Internal Displacement
• Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness (Dedalus, 2024)
• State-Owned Enterprises in the Post-2022 Global Landscape
• Dr A. Austin Garey
• Dr Diana Galeeva
• Is Putin's regime really stable?
• Dr Irina Demetradze-Renz
• Dr Stephen Hall
• Book Launch: Goderdzi Chokheli’s ‘Human Sadness’ with talks by Professor Dan Healey, Ms Lia Chokoshvili, and Translators