Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Scott Radnitz co-authors with other professors in the U.S., Europe and UK “An Open Letter in Support of Central European University” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Central European University, known as CEU, is based in Hungary’s capital, Budapest. In early April, the Hungarian

This March 2015 panel was co-sponsored by the Ellison Center, the East Asia Center, and the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. Panelists included Dr. Liz Wishnick from Montclair State University, Dr. Mikhail Alekseev from San Diego State University, and Dr. Judith Thornton from the University of

The Official Website of the Federal Archive Agency Официальный сайт Федерального архивного агентства (Росархива) The Federal Archive Agency organizes information on territorial and educational bodies, offices abroad, and state authorities. It contains more than 500 million items dating from the XI century to the present day.

Recent Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas came to the University of Washington this spring to give the 2016 Herbert J. Ellison Memorial Lecture. In her lecture, Dr. Farkas discussed the current state of affairs between the United States and Russia, and highlighted the steps the United States could take to counter Russian aggression. Dr.

By Carol J. Williams The NATO allies have delivered a one-two punch this month at perceived dangers emanating from Russia by activating a missile shield in Romania and announcing plans to deploy 4,000 soldiers and their weaponry in nervous member states bordering Russia in the Baltic region. Alliance officials have attempted to reassure the Kremlin

Every year, the Department of State and Institute of International Education (IIE) organize special enrichment seminars for first-year Fulbright Foreign Students studying at universities across the United States. From May 4 through May 9, 2016, IIE organized a “democracy in action” seminar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to acquaint visiting Fulbrighters from more than 100 different countries with U.S.

On Saturday, April 30 the University of Washington’s Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) and the University of Puget Sound (UPS) partnered to hold the twenty-second annual REECAS NW conference. Students and scholars came together from the University of Victoria, Stanford University, Seattle Pacific University, UPS and UW to present on issues

Matteo Fumagalli, an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Budapest’s Central European University, came to the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington in spring 2016 to discuss Kyrgyzstan and the idea of “frozen conflicts.” Kyrgyzstan’s post-Soviet political history has been marked by dramatic

On April 26, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Political Science Lucan Way visited the University of Washington to give a public lecture on his new book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics. As part of his talk, Dr. Way outlined his theory about the perhaps surprising rise of pluralism in

Greta Starrett is a second year MA student in the REECAS program at UW. She completed an internship in summer 2015 for the U.S. Department of State at the embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. I was back on Georgian soil. It was hard to believe: I had only left a little over a year earlier at