Historian of Russian Press, PhD Candidate at University of Maryland @UofMaryland| Words in @wapo @latimes @MoscowTimes | Tweets on #Russia, #Press, #Culture.
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My piece for the @kennaninstitute
#RussiaFile examines the intricate historical relationship between the state and the press in Russia. wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/r…
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Join us Sept 21 @ 12 pm ET for the first 19v seminar of the semester "Newspapers Under the Tsars: New Directions in Imperial Russian Press History" w/ @AC_Graff & @liza_raykhlina. bit.ly/newstsars
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📢 TODAY @ 3:00-4:15 PM EST: @philgleissner will speak about "Periodical Studies as a Provocation to Literary Studies". Join us! For Zoom link, email [email protected]
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📢 Coming up this Friday, May 6 @ 3PM EST: @GazetaWorkshop is delighted to host a lecture by @philgleissner examining the Soviet thick journal as "a core element of the socialist literary system". Q&A to follow. Email to receive the Zoom link!
📢TODAY @ 3:00-4:15PM Join us for a talk by @ScottShaneNYT - Pulitzer Prize-winning author, former @nytimes reporter, and former @baltimoresun correspondent. Talk title: "The Russian Press Revolution, 1988-1991." For Zoom link, email [email protected]
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📢TODAY, April 1, 3PM EST, Dr. Jeffrey Brooks will give a talk, titled "Looking Back at the Soviet Press under Lenin and Stalin" as part of the @GazetaWorkshop Series. Join us!
📢 Friday, April 1, 3PM EST, @GazetaWorkshop is honored to host the inaugural Gazeta Series presentation by Dr. Jeffrey Brooks, who will talk about the journalists, readers, and infrastructure of the early Soviet press. Audience Q&A to follow.
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In Kyiv archive staff are working round the clock to scan documents and to move digitised material on to servers abroad to save their history. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
An excellent calendar of academic talks and discussions by some of the most prominent experts in the field of Russian, Ukrainian, and East European studies.
ASEEES is continuously adding to a calendar of upcoming panels, webinars, discussions, and events regarding the current war in Ukraine. Please email Jenn Legler at [email protected] if you would like your event to appear on this list.
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📢 Join a distinguished collective of Russian press historians for a discussion of recent media closures and blockings in #Russia. 📅Thursday, March 10 @ 4PM EST. A @GazetaWorkshop Event.
Join us, March 10 @ 4 pm EST: "Media, Censorship, and (Dis-)Information in Russia's Attack on Ukraine."
@GazetaWorkshop will host a conversation on the ongoing deterioration of press freedoms in Russia as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
War as nation-building in @harari_yuval's superb article: "Nations are ultimately built on stories. Each passing day adds more stories that Ukrainians will tell not only in the dark days ahead, but in the decades and generations to come." #Ukraine
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Watching the horrific events in Ukraine & feeling helpless? @Stanford students from Ukraine offer you some ways to help at this website: standwithukraine.how/
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I’m buried with requests from people who want to help right now. It’s beautiful and I’m so thankful. But, a reminder: please consult the professional orgs and groups who are organizing. They have plans and can instruct you where to help. Lots of folks are showing up to
Lviv's famous brewery donating bottles for molotov cocktails. Gutting and heartbreaking. #StandWithUkraine
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Putin has been cynically using the language of “denazification” in a barrage of propaganda to rally Russians behind an unjust war against Ukraine. This is right out of Stalin’s playbook.
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In having to verify hundreds of videos, am seeing so many dead bodies of Russian soldiers that the statement by Russian's General Staff of "no casualties" begins to sound like a major ticking time-bomb.
What else needs to happen in order for serious, personal sanctions to be introduced? Sanctions that will truly affect decision-makers. The delay only shows an ugly co-dependency between Western states, brands, and interests, and Russia's bloody elites.
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Too little, too late
Londongrad just took a direct hit. Or did it?
Look at the measures that the government has announced.
Here’s a quick guide
