Russian Area Studies News
15 February 2023Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Headlines Inaugural Anderton Forum
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is the inaugural guest speaker at the first event of the Anderton Forum in Global Engagement, established in 2022 by former Trustee James F. Anderton IV ’65.
Read More24 May 20227th Fulbright-Hays Award for Russian Studies and Economics
The grant from the U.S. Department of Education will fund an intensive course abroad on the politics, economics and culture of Georgia.
Read More26 March 2021Protests, Poison, Prison: Navalnys Russian Opposition Movement
HWS will host a virtual forum to discuss the opposition movement led by Alexei Navalny against Vladimir Putins regime in Russia.
Read More25 June 2020Honors Students Demonstrate Academic Rigor
Twenty-eight students in the Classes of 2020 have graduated with Honors, demonstrating academic rigor and excellence in written and oral communication.
Read More2 October 2019Curtis '20 Publishes Russian to English Translation
The art of translation requires far more than the simple ability to speak that language, says Alexandra Curtis '20.
Read More28 August 2019Cavanaugh '20 Returns to Russia
A study abroad experience in 2018 to Barnaul, Russia was all it took to inspire Sarah Cavanaugh '20 to return to the thriving Siberian city.
Read More16 May 2019Sipher '83 in The Atlantic, NPR: Russia Investigation Continues
In an article in The Atlantic and an NPR interview this month, retired Central Intelligence Agency officer John Sipher ’83, P’19 discusses the questions about Russia’s election interference that remain following the release of the Mueller Report. Sipher will serve as this year’s keynote speaker for the Hobart Launch on Friday.
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