Tag: Russia
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Nation & World
Democracy as defense
Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of Georgia, says his nation’s embrace of democratic institutions makes it a strong counterbalance to Russia in the Black Sea region.
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Campus & Community
János Kornai Leontief Medal for economics contributions
Former economics professor János Kornai was awarded the Leontief Medal, given annually to several Russian economists and one international economist for contributions to the field of economics.
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Arts & Culture
The future is now
Harvard senior reflects on his filmmaking, including a Siberian documentary and a futuristic fantasy.
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Campus & Community
Gough named Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art
Maria Gough, a scholar of the Soviet and Russian avant-garde, has been appointed Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Professor of Modern Art in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.
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Campus & Community
Davis Center announces 2009-10 visitors and award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies recently announced a total of 20 incoming fellows, visiting scholars, and award recipients for the 2009-10 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Davis Center awards student grants for study, research travel, internships
The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, dedicated to fostering comprehensive understanding and multidisciplinary study of Russia and the countries of Eurasia, has awarded grants to 37 undergraduate and graduate students to pursue research travel, language study, and overseas internships during the summer of 2009.
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Arts & Culture
How’d the Russians get the H-bomb?
Ever hear of Elugelab? Until Oct. 31, 1952, it was an island on Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Then it vanished, consumed in the fireball of the world’s first hydrogen bomb.
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Arts & Culture
The pogrom that transformed 20th century Jewry
On April 8, 1903 — Easter Sunday — a mild disturbance against local Jews rattled Kishinev, a sleepy city on the southwestern border of imperial Russia.
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Arts & Culture
Scholar enjoys wrestling ‘the Great Bear’
Some scholars are hard-pressed to identify what exactly drew them to their field. Others can point to a specific “aha!” moment when they found their academic calling. In Justin Weir’s case, it all began with a bit of bureaucracy.
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Nation & World
Nunn wants to eliminate nukes
Sam Nunn, former Democratic senator from Georgia (1973-97), is well known as an eminence in the realm of U.S. security policy.
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Campus & Community
Davis Center announces 2008-09 award recipients
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies has announced its fellowship, prize, research travel grant, and internship recipients for the 2008-09 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Lowell House bells to make debut in courtyard concert
On Sunday (Aug. 24), anyone near Harvard Square will hear the new bells in Lowell House ring out in concert for the first time.
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Campus & Community
Rescued Russian bells leave Harvard for home
In a succession of brief ceremonies outside Lowell House this week (July 8), Harvard University officially returned to authorities of the Russian Orthodox Church the last of a set of monastery bells saved from a Stalinist-era scrap heap.
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Arts & Culture
Africans, ‘Africanness,’ and the Soviets
It’s no secret that a century and a half after the Civil War, the United States still struggles to come to terms with the legacy of African slavery.
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Campus & Community
The Committee for the Provostial Fund awards seven new proposals
The Office of the Dean for the Arts and Humanities has announced that the Committee for the Provostial Fund in the Arts and Humanities has recently awarded funds to the following seven proposals (in alphabetical order by title).
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Nation & World
How Sputnik changed U.S. education
Education experts said Oct. 4 that the United States may be overdue for a science education overhaul like the one undertaken after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite 50 years ago, and predicted that a window for change may open as the Iraq war winds down.
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Campus & Community
Danilov Monastery bells to ring in Russia once more
Nearly 80 years after they were rescued by plumbing magnate Charles R. Crane, the Lowell House bells are returning to their original home in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow.
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Nation & World
At CGIS, attorney Amsterdam blasts Russian Federation, others
“We’ve got to stop blaming Vladimir Putin,” Robert Amsterdam told his listeners at the Center for Government and International Studies Tuesday morning (May 15). “That does us no good.
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Arts & Culture
Boym turns chance errors into chancy art
Svetlana Boym leads a double life. Her faculty Web page identifies her as the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature. She is the author of several scholarly books and teaches courses with titles like “Memory and Modernity” and “Russian Culture from Revolution to Perestroika.”
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Arts & Culture
Portraits of dissent on view at Davis Center
Norton Dodge is an economist, a Harvard alumnus, and a savior of smuggled Soviet art. Smuggler is not usually a moniker that one would choose, but for Norton Dodge it is a badge of honor. Concerned with the plight of artists living under Soviet rule, many of whom found their work prohibited by the regime,…