Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will be the featured guest in a conversation focusing on the global refugee crisis. Grandi will respond to questions by Susan Stigant, director of Africa Programs at the United States Institute … Read more
Popular elections in Russia have often been replaced by some forms of indirect elections or appointments at both regional and municipal level. Scholars have studied various effects such institutional changes have on the characteristics of political leaders. Guzel Garifullina builds … Read more
Join us for a panel discussion with leading experts on protest and contested politics in Belarus and the post-Soviet space, including researchers currently on the ground in Minsk. Participants: Mark Beissinger, Princeton University Sasha de Vogel, University of Michigan Aliaksandr … Read more
Despite months of mass protests on streets across the country and the refusal by many of his neighbors to recognize him as the legitimate President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko seems determined to hold onto power. The situation is delicately poised … Read more
Inspiring and heartbreaking, the news and images of a peaceful popular uprising in Belarus against the despotic rule of Alexander Lukashenko have been on everyone’s mind since August 9th. Join the UNC Russian Flagship Program for a conversation with Professor … Read more
Ambassador Kent D. Logsdon currently serves as the US Ambassador to Moldova. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Head of the US Embassy Mission in Berlin, Germany, serving as Chargé d’Affaires from January 2017 to May 2018. His previous … Read more
This roundtable will address the political situation in the countries neighboring Ukraine and that are involved in the war in one way or another. Belarus’ status in the world is full of paradoxes: the UN considers Belarus an aggressor country … Read more
On March 6, 2022, only several days after Russia waged its war against Ukraine, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill stated that this war “has not a physical, but metaphysical meaning.” Indeed, Putin’s metaphysical ideas about the world … Read more
Marek Magierowski graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with a degree in Hispanic Studies. He worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for over 20 years. He was, among others, the deputy head of the economic desk at … Read more
The monument of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on the central square of Borodyanka town in Kyiv Oblast on April 5, 2022. Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk. Emerging Scholars on the State of the Field, Activism, and Advocacy is the third panel … Read more
