“Like many fellow KGB veterans who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin retains a keen sense of the fragility of the Russian state.”

Read Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan on the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign against defectors:
trib.al/4lt8N3V

🚨NEW EVENT🚨

Protests in Georgia: what’s at stake?

Speakers:
▪️ Hans Gutbrod
▪️ Thomas de Waal
▪️ Ľubica Polláková
▪️ Stephen Jones,Davis Center
▪️ Natalie Sabanadze

Join this CH Russia Eurasia event.

Date📅: 13 May
Time📷: 14:00

Register👇
chathamhouse.org/events/all/res…

Добра ніч, dear friends. Thanks, The Kyiv Independent and Kate Tsurkan 🇺🇦, for this list of 10 #books that will help people better understand the war in #Ukraine : kyivindependent.com/10-ukrainian-b…. It's never too late to #standwithUkraine @ read more #Ukrainian #literature .

Thank you to Dedham Library for having me last night for a public talk on the Holodomor. An active and engaged audience asked great questions. It was great to see so much support for Ukraine in a small MA town.

My latest for The Atlantic:

'My generation has tasted freedom and experienced a competitive, vibrant political life. We can’t be made a part of what Russia has become.'
theatlantic.com/international/…

alyona alyona and Jerry Heil have made it to the #Eurovision2024 final with the song 'Teresa & Maria'. So, Ukraine remains the only country that qualified for the final every time it participated 🇺🇦

Now it's time to have our fingers crossed for the final performance on May 11!

Thank you to Bohdan Tokarskyi for his lecture on Ukrainian post-war poet, dissident, and Gulag prisoner Vasyl Stus. The recording of 'Poetry for a Totalitarian Time: Vasyl Stus and the Terror of History,' is available here: bit.ly/4bf2By7?r=lp
#ukrainianpoetry #soviethistory

This weekend- we welcome you to attend a #documentary #filmscreening and discussion for 'White Angel- The End of Marinka.' Link here to RSVP: bit.ly/4dvZQu5?r=lp

Proofs are in of #ChernobylRoulette .
We return to Chernobyl, telling the gripping story of 35 days of war.

It is a warning of the dangers of nuclear sites & a story of ordinary people caught in unimaginable circumstances.

Serhii Plokhy is in London end Aug.
Published 3 Sept

Neues Buch von Prof. Serhii Plokhy, Harvard University, zum Mörder von @StepanBandera - dem KGB-Agenten Bogdan Staschinski

Erschienen beim ibidem-Verlag

CC: Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin Politik und Zeitgeschichte Referat Zeitgeschichte | Böll-Stiftung Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt OeZG Österr. Zschr. für Geschichtswissenschaften FID Geschichtswissenschaft Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt
umland.wordpress.com/2024/05/05/neu…

Evidence points to a more aggressive and concerted effort by Moscow to plan violent acts of sabotage with little apparent concern for civilian fatalities, intelligence officials told the FT on.ft.com/3y8o4dV

“Lesia Ukrainka's anti-colonial message is sharpened by her feminist approach:it is women's freedom which she presents as a core split between Ukrainian and Muscovian (Russian) cultures”

Dr Sasha Dovzhyk in her essay on one of the most prominent 🇺🇦writers
bylinesupplement.com/p/lesia-ukrain…

Today is “Clean Thursday” in Ukraine, the last Thursday before Easter. 🇺🇦tradition - trying to take candles enlightened from the church all the way back home. “Clean Thursday”, 1887 by Mykola Pymonenko. I’ve seen this today near my home, tradition is alive 💔

TOMORROW at 2 PM EDT! Please join the 'Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia Workshop' for a special session titled 'A Feminist Response to the War in Ukraine.'
Link here! >> bit.ly/4a1z5uQ?r=lp
#Feminism #UkraineRussianWar #CUNY

Our websites for #HURIbooks and the #HarvardUkrainianStudies journal are down due to a hacking attempt until further notice. Our understanding is that a possible breach has been contained. The main HURI Harvard website was not affected by this.

Please bear with us as we work…

Looking forward to discussing our book with Maria Popova in Seattle on Thursday! First time visit to this city for me, what are some of the must see sights to see on a short visit?

Our author, Stanislav Aseyev, has sustained an injury at Ocheretyne in Eastern Ukraine where he has been serving in defense of Ukraine. Stanislav’s the winner of the Heartland Alliance’s Diana Ortiz Award for Courage, among many other recognitions, and he totally lives up to that.…

Come down to the Fisher Family Commons (FCC) Gallery, to view 'Our Life Behind Barbed Wire.' Curated by Alex Averbuch, this exhibit features photos from Ukrainian Ostarbeiters ('forced laborers) in Nazi Germany.
#worldwar2 #exhibition

This Wednesday at 5 PM EST: Come join 'Non-State Diplomats: North American Ukrainian Diaspora and the Ukrainian Cause,' a #ukrainianhistory lecture about émigrés during the interwar years. Delivered by HURI's own Ola Hnatiuk, in-person & online.🔗here! >> bit.ly/3JD5oW4