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
March 29, 2018
Jackson School Professor Emeritus Donald Hellmann commented on the U.S. State Department’s decision to close the Russian consulate in Seattle and expel 60 Russian diplomats in response to an attack on an ex-spy
March 29, 2018
Assistant Professor Sasha Senderovich is quoted by the Seattle Times in a piece titled ‘We’ll see what happens’: For Russian immigrants, closure of Seattle consulate means frustration, uncertainty“. He details his personal
January 29, 2018
Alumna Indra Ekmanis has been awarded a Baltic Sea fellowship with the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. In her current project she examines the effects of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Baltic independence
January 18, 2018
Alumna Indra Ekmanis is interviewed on the question of a common cultural identity for the Baltic states by the Washington D.C. based Wilson Center. Ekmanis graduated from the Ph.D. program in 2017
September 22, 2017
The unassuming name “картошка” (or картофель), meaning “potato”, not only indicates the popular root vegetable staple in Russia – it is also the name of a popular no-bake chocolate early