Matthew Rojansky is Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, and has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian

Friday, March 9, 2018 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | LAW 118 Speakers: Yuriy Didula (Lviv Education Foundation, Founder, Building Ukraine Together), Maryana Kashchak (Executive Director, Lviv Education Foundation), Sofia Kovach (UNDP, UW Law SID LLM Alumna, anti-corruption specialist) We invite you to join a discussion on the current situation in Ukraine and its development challenges and strengths. The speakers

Dangerously dysfunctional relations between Washington and Moscow have been blamed by the press, pundits and politicians on the failure of U.S. policymakers to properly “read” Vladimir Putin and thus to predict the Kremlin’s supposedly strategic foreign policy agenda. However, rather than attempting to predict Putin’s next move or to de-code the meaning behind personnel shuffles

In this talk, Seattle native Tony Allison discusses his involvement in a jointly owned Soviet-American fishing venture during the Cold War period. Allison served as Director of the Nakhodka and Moscow offices of the Marine Resources Company and then, after the end of the Soviet Union, as CEO from 1990 until its closure in 2001.

As part of the lecture series “Trump in the World: International Implications of the Trump Presidency” Professor of History and International Studies Glennys Young discussed the impact of the 2016 election and the presidency of Donald Trump from the perspective of Russia. The 10-week lecture series was hosted by the Jackson School of International Studies at

Wednesday, January 31 | 4:30pm | The Peterson Room, Allen Library (4th Floor, Room 485)   U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated precipitously in recent years, having recently reached new lows. Beginning with the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the resulting US-backed sanctions on Moscow, the decline grew worse with Russia’s intervention in Syria and the Russian role in hacking the

Glennys Young was gave a lecture on the Global Cold War and Washington State at the Ellison Center’s Master Teacher Workshop in October 2017 and will participate in the upcoming symposium, Glasnost & Goodwill: Citizen Diplomacy in the Northwest held in conjunction with the ongoing exhibit by the same name at the Washington State History Museum in

For many years, Tony Allison worked for Marine Resources Company, the only jointly owned Soviet-American venture during the Cold War period. He was the first Fisheries Operations Manager at sea on Soviet processing vessels that received catches from US boats. These operations continued for 12 years. Later, Tony served in Russia as Director of the

Department highlight: Slavic Languages & Literatures by Alex Visser View the original article on The Daily’s website Padelford Hall is home to perhaps the most complex web of hallways and rooms, each twisting through the building in a disorienting manner that removes all sense of direction. In a small room at the corner of this illusion

Glasnost & Goodwill: Citizen Diplomacy in the Northwest Exhibit: on view through Sunday, January 21, 2018 Symposium: January 20, 2018 By the 1980s, there were thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at the United States, and an equal number targeted at the Soviet Union. Only a vague notion of “mutually assured destruction” stood between war and