Russia

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  3/6/2020
  

  As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity

  Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s. Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.

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• 2/9/20
  

  How Religious History Helps Us Understand Russia's War Against Ukrainian Independence

  by Khrystyna Karelska and Andreas Umland

  In recent months, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian multidimensional military, political, economic and cultural conflict has made international news. What is less well known beyond Eastern Europe is the important religious aspect of Moscow’s “hybrid war” against Ukrainian national independence.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Poles Apart: Putin, Poland and the Nazi-Soviet Pact

  by Geoffrey Roberts

  As the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, two of that war’s main victims – Poland and Russia – are once again embroiled in a highly emotional dispute about its origins. At the heart of the matter is the perennial controversy about the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/5/20
  

  Putin’s Big Historical Lie

  by Anne Applebaum

  In a series of comments in late December, the Russian president appeared to blame Poland for the outbreak of the Second World War.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Russian Victories in the Post-Cold War Era

  by Albert M. Camarillo

  Putin’s Russia is winning battles to destabilize the U.S. that former USSR leaders such as Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev had tried but failed.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/16/19
  

  The impeachment hearings are a battle between oligarchy and democracy

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Ukraine’s leaders were accustomed to wielding power by prosecuting their political opponents for corruption, and Yovanovitch’s push to end that practice earned their ire.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/11/19
  

  Russian Historian Professor, Found With Bag of Severed Arms, Admits He Killed Student

  Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian who made a career studying and impersonating Napoleon Bonaparte, liked to be called “Sire.” He also had a long history of seducing and being violent toward female students at a prestigious university.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/26/19
  

  Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference

  by Casey Michel

  Trump’s willingness to allow foreign governments to influence American elections is historically unprecedented. Just how unprecedented becomes clear when you look back at the long history of attempts by foreign powers (almost always Russia) to tip an outcome to their advantage.

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• SOURCE: The Crimson
  10/11/19
  

  Serhii Plokhii on Ukraine’s Political Frontiers

  Professor Serhii Plokhii, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard, discussed Ukranian history, the Trump-Ukraine scandal, and the roles that both Russia and the United States have played in shaping the country’s politics.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

  by Gabrielle Cornish

  Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”

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• 9/15/19
  

  Expansion and Motivation: Frontiers and Borders in the Past and Present of the United States and Russia

  by Robert W. Thurston

  Greg Grandin's The End of the Myth, David McCullough's The Pioneers, and Angela Stent's Putin’s World push us to consider and compare the history of the frontier and borders. 

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• August 11, 2019
  

  Russian History Gives the United States an Ominous Warning

  by Laura Engelstein

  What can Russia's tumultuous history teach us about the brevity of stable governments. 

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback’s Conversations
  7/5/19
  

  Explaining Putin’s World: A Conversation with Angela Stent

  How is today’s polarized, disrupted world one in which Russia can thrive?

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• SOURCE: Greenwich Time
  6/5/2019
  

  Russia says D-Day memorials are part of a 'false' history of World War II meant to airbrush out the Soviet Union

  Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a "false" picture of who was responsible for winning World War II.

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• 5/19/19
  

  Anton Chekhov: Environmental Prophet for Our Planet

  by Walter G. Moss

  Like Netflix's documentary Our Planet, the Russian writer often displayed a deep love of nature in his hundreds of stories and plays.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/3/19
  

  A Beluga Whale Is Allegedly a Russian Spy. There's a Long History of Marine Mammals in the Military

  In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet authorities reportedly trained beluga wales, dolphins, sea lions and fur seals to search for underwater mines and other objects.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/17/19
  

  Russia isn’t the first country to protest Western control over global telecommunications

  by Sarah Nelson

  As the international community becomes increasingly concerned about misinformation and data breaches, the Russian government has announced plans to test its own, sweeping solution to the problem: disconnecting Russia from the global internet.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake

  by John Ermer

  It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.

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• 4/14/19
  

  Is the Western World Declining and Russia Rising?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Yes, according to Glenn Diesen’s 2018 book The Decay of Western Civilization and Resurgence of Russia. But this isn't the first time scholars have made such a prediction and been wrong. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/2/19
  

  How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad

  by William J. Burns

  An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.