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Tag: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
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Nation & World
Why Soviet playbook isn’t working in Ukraine
Pulitzer-winning journalist Anne Applebaum says Russians misjudged resistance, their troops lack sense of mission, leading to “nihilism” of wider, more random destruction.
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Nation & World
Don’t give Russia an inch, former U.S. diplomat says
Marie Yovanovitch makes a case for standing by Ukraine as the war drags on, warning that defeat would embolden Putin and other dictators.
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Nation & World
Rushing to save her homeland — or at least its story
Harvard bibliographer Olha Aleksic rushes to save her homeland — or at least its story.
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Nation & World
To commemorate a centennial, a look back at a tragedy — and maybe an attempted genocide
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum will discuss her research on the Holodomor, a famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s that killed nearly 4 million people, and which she contends was orchestrated by Joseph Stalin.
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Nation & World
From protests to power plays
Radoslaw Sikorski, speaker of the Polish parliament and recent foreign minister, discusses the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis and what it means for Europe.
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Nation & World
Confrontation in Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii, an authority on Ukrainian history and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explains what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.
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Nation & World
Ihor Ševčenko
The news of Ihor Ševčenko’s death, on the day after Christmas 2009, elicited a spontaneous international reaction that befitted his stature as a towering intellect and hugely admired scholar in the fields of Byzantine and pre-modern Slavic studies.
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Nation & World
One country, two stories
A Harvard doctoral student from Belarus spends winter break in her homeland, awash in election turmoil.
