Russia NOW!
Russian Area Studies faculty panel with Profs. Thomas Hodge, Nina Tumarkin, Adam Weiner, and Dr George Soroka, (Harvard)
“Russia NOW: The Current State of the Former Soviet Union”
Russia could hardly be a more dangerously active and consequential actor on the world stage. It is likely to continue to be the world’s most successfully disruptive rogue state for at least another generation. The Russo-Ukrainian War, Europe’s first major war since 1945, has engendered massive shifts, including the harshest domestic regime in at least a half-century. But Russia’s singular global importance goes way beyond the war in Ukraine. It is the world’s largest country by far and one of its biggest producers of oil and gas, it maintains the world’s most vast nuclear weapons stockpile, and is a major threat to the security of the United States and its allies. What are the Kremlin’s goals as it continues its relentless attacks on Ukrainian military and civilian targets? Why are so many people serving long sentences for purported crimes such as spreading “fake news” about a war that is not allowed to be called a “war?” In what ways has the war impacted Russian culture?
Professors Thomas Hodge (Russian), Nina Tumarkin (History), and Dr. George Soroka (Government Department, Harvard) will address these compelling questions and more in a panel moderated by Professor Adam Weiner (Russian).