July 17, 2018
In his opinion piece “Peas in a Russian nesting doll: Trump and Putin’s converging goals,” Herbert Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Jackson School, Professor Dan Chirot,
May 29, 2018
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies, discusses the FX show ‘The Americans’ and how it has repeatedly challenged the narrative that the end of the Cold War represented
May 24, 2018
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies, discusses the passing of Jewish American writer Philip Roth. Senderovich, who immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union, says that
May 22, 2018
Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Jewish, and International Studies, in his article “Tree More Pieces” reflects on last week’s events in Israel and Palestine marking the 70th anniversary for Israel’s independence
May 21, 2018
Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies Daniel Chirot comments on India’s thawing relations with Russia in an article titled “Modi meets Putin as India walks US-Russia tightrope” about a recent meeting between Indian
May 14, 2018
Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich and satirist and author Gary Shteyngart join KUOW’s The Record, hosted by journalist Bill Radke, for a conversation about comedy under President Trump, life in Soviet Russia and
April 25, 2018
Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Scott Radnitz discusses the different scenarios if in fact Russia possesses compromising material on Trump in an
March 30, 2018
Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich was interviewed on NPR and shared how he was personally affected by the order to close the Russian consulate in Seattle. He argues targeted economic sanctions would be diplomatically
March 30, 2018
Associate Professor and Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Scott Radnitz was interviewed by MyNorthwest following the announcement of the closure of the Russian Consulate
March 29, 2018
Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich publishes a piece in the Stranger titled “Chasing My Passport From the Soviet Union’s Collapse to the Shuttering of Seattle’s Russian Consulate” after the Trump administration ordered