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Tag: Ukraine
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Nation & World
Women at war
Three veteran war correspondents talk about the increasingly dangerous job of reporting from conflict zones.
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Nation & World
Putin makes his move
A Q&A with Nick Burns of Harvard Kennedy School on what’s likely to happen next in Ukraine and in the standoff with its neighbor Russia.
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Nation & World
‘A Whisper to a Roar’ sparks discussion
Panelists convened at the Harvard Kennedy School on Monday to discuss individuals’ motivations to risk their lives to fight for democracy.
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Arts & Culture
Art and catastrophe
At a photo exhibit on Chernobyl, 25 years after the disaster, viewers get glimpses of both hope and horror.
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Campus & Community
Ihor Ševčenko
Ihor Ševčenko, prominent Byzantinist and Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History and Literature, Emeritus, at Harvard, died Dec. 26 at age 87.
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Campus & Community
Omeljan Pritsak
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2009, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Omeljan Pritsak, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Pritsak’s work transformed our understanding of East Slavic history.
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Health
A doctor without borders
Oleksiy Skrynnyk was just a carefree 9-year-old, his fishing rod slung over his shoulder as he walked home from his favorite pond. He never saw the low-hanging power line. Twenty-two hundred volts shot through his body, entering his right shoulder and exiting out his left foot. The electrocution burns were extensive. His right arm was…
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Arts & Culture
‘The diverse ways history can be written’
Relocating to a foreign city for a new job can be stressful in the most congenial circumstances. Trying to depart your home country in the middle of a Communist coup? As Serhii Plokhii, Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, can tell you — that’s downright complicated.
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Campus & Community
Serhii Plokhii is new Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
Serhii Plokhii, a prolific scholar whose studies have opened up a new pathway of studying Ukraine’s relationship with Eastern and Central Europe, has been appointed Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1.