By Clare Angeroth Franks, REEI alumna Deaths which occur in state custody are a growing crisis in the Russian Federation. While there are no official statistics on deaths in custody in the country, more than one third of deaths associated with law enforcement agencies and the Federal Penitentiary Service (Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний or FSIN) are not adequately explained. Most often, the public only learns that… Read more »
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Reflections on Nataliya Savelyeva’s Talk, “Parasite Organizations”
By Griffin Edwards, MA student, REEI Natalia Savelyeva’s recent lecture “Parasite Organizations: What the Evolution of Direct Sales Marketing in Russia can tell us about Contemporary Capitalism” discussed the reception of direct sales marketing organizations in post-Soviet Russia, from its original stigma to acceptance. Savelyeva’s research seeks to answer questions such as: what were the… Read more »
Reflections on Stanislav Budnitsky’s talk, “Russia’s Great Power Identity and Internet Diplomacy”
Written by Nicholas Ingersoll, Graduate Student, Department of History On November 11, 2020, Dr. Stanislav Budnitsky, a postdoctoral fellow at the IU Russian Studies Workshop, gave a presentation on “Russia’s Great Power Identity and Internet Diplomacy” and its implications for Russia’s approach to internet governance and diplomacy. Dr. Budnitsky’s work investigates how the national identity… Read more »
Phillips participates in Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies”
On August 29, Sarah Phillips, IU professor of anthropology and director of the Russian and East European Institute, was a guest of the online interactive Russian-language seminar Utopian Kruzhok, “Body, Technology, Environment: Disability Studies.” Created and led by Alexandra Kurlenkova, PhD student in Media, Culture and Communication at NYU, the Disability Studies “kruzhok” (circle) introduces participants from various… Read more »
COVID-19 in Russia’s Regions: Explaining Trends and Assessing Fiscal Risks
By Andrey Yushkov, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs This is the third in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or… Read more »
Tackling the Million-Ruble Question: The Lessons of Soviet Collapse
by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science This is the first in a special series on IU graduate students and their research, RSW Research Series. It is an opportunity for RSW colleagues and other readers to learn more about our students’ research projects. If you are interested in learning more about this research or connecting… Read more »
Conference in Review: Central Slavic Conference (CSC) in St. Louis,
We asked Griffin Edwards to write up a few notes about this conference – his first experience in presenting a research paper – to give other Master’s degree students a sense of how it actually works. The conference took place February 28-March 1, 2020; their website notes that, “Graduate students (“colleagues-in-the-making”) are particularly welcome.” For… Read more »
Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture: “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”
Written by Dima Kortukov, PhD student in Political Science “Serving the Public and … Autocrats: How Free Media Promote the Survival of Authoritarian Regimes?”: Reflections on Valery Nechay’s lecture In the last quarter of the 20th century, dictatorial regimes collapsed in numerous states across diverse regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe. But as… Read more »
Reflections on the Graduate Methods Training Workshop, September 14-15 2018
Memo from the Russian Studies Workshop. Written by Sarah Fogleman, RSW Project Coordinator. On September 14-15, 2018, RSW organized the “Graduate Methods Training Workshop: Focus on Russia.” The GMTW brought together 20 emerging social-science scholars from across the United States to IU’s Social Science Research Commons (SSRC), a state-of-the-art facility designed for social scientists. There, they met with over a… Read more »
Siberia from the outside and from within: international conference of field researchers / Сибирь извне и изнутри: международная конференция полевых исследователей
Written by Elena Korkina, member of the Center for Independent Research in the Social Sciences-Irkutsk / Написано Еленой Коркиной, сотрудник Центра независимых социальных исследований – Иркутск Конференций о Сибири, много. Конференций, в которых могут участвовать исследователи Сибири ещё больше. Почему иркутская – особая статья? В основе иркутской конференции три принципа: Исследования “человеческой”, повседневной и современной… Read more »