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By Zinaida Osipova In conversations with my cousin and his friends who graduated from the prestigious Moscow State University (Moskovskii gosudarstvennyi universitet, or MGU), it was fascinating to learn about the life of the brightest minds of Russia: just like … Continue reading
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By Zinaida Osipova When I first visited St. Petersburg, I knew that my smartphone would show me the way to the Winter Palace, Dostoyevsky’s apartment, or anywhere else I wished. In an era of GPS and online maps, it is … Continue reading
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By Emily Tatum At the end of October, with the support of the Political Science Department, I traveled to Poland to attend the Warsaw Security Forum. The Warsaw Security Forum has emerged as a leading foreign policy and international … Continue reading
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By Zinaida Osipova Hardly one of the greatest but certainly one of the most peculiar Russian rulers was the son of Catherine the Great, Paul I (1796–1801). I have always been fascinated by his personality: being in the shade of … Continue reading
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By Zinaida Osipova It was Konstantin Khabensky’s part in the 2008 film Admiral that revived Alexander Kolchak’s name among the wider Russian population almost a century after he had lived. The movie portrayed Kolchak, who was an Imperial admiral and … Continue reading
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By August Hagemann Though Vasily Grossman holds that individuals are to be held accountable for their actions under Stalin’s regime, he contends in his novel Everything Flows that it is fate that ultimately determined who faced what set of circumstances … Continue reading
