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- Dr Nicolette Makovicky and Dr Robin Smith publish a special article for the journal Social Analysis
- Dr Nicolette Makovicky has published the post Common Decency in the Populist Era in Anthropology News
- The national(ist) necropolitics of masks
- Dr David Maziashvili publishes new article `Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar on the Georgian Stage'
- Professor Roy Allison publishes new article in 'Europe-Asia Studies' Journal
- Anna Davidson MSc Student, 2019-2020
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- Research on democratic backsliding in Eastern Europe and the transnational cooperation of populist radical right parties
- REES welcomes a new Leverhulme Research Fellow
- REES Alumni Nicole Grajewski discusses conflict in the South Caucasus
- Post-Communist Economies published an article of relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic by Chris Davis, Senior Research Fellow of REES
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- European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) release new analysis written by REES' Dr Leila Alieva
- Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield publish new research on the electoral success of Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘Servant of the People’ Party
- Jan Farfal
- Article 'Fragile interdependence: the case of Russia-EU relations' by former REES graduate Huawei Zheng
- REES Alumnus Antti Rauhala's OECD Report
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- REES alumnus Alexandre Gianasso appointed a Commercial Manager at the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce
- Leverhulme Visiting Professor Dr Agnieszka Koscianska publishes new book
- Guillaume Minea-Pic
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- REES Alumna Cordelia Buchanan Ponczek's CEPA Report
- Depictions of Post-COVID-19 Futures in Russian International Media: Multimodal Viewpoint Analysis
- Depictions of Post-COVID-19 Futures in Russian International Media: Multimodal Viewpoint Analysis
- Pre-empting miscalculation between NATO, Russia, and Belarus
- Dr Mihail Chiru's new article: Electoral incentives for territorial representation in the European Parliament
- Europe and the United States Have Enabled Kleptocracy. Now They Have to Get Serious About Fighting It
- REES DPhil Anna J. Davidson awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship with The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
- REES' Dr Agnieszka Koscianska interviewed for The Fourcast
- Beyond the Boom: Toward Human and Social Development in the Post-Oil Era in Azerbaijan
- REES Affiliate Dr Leila Alieva on panel at 'A Place for Oil' conference
- REES DPhil candidate Marija Norkunaite awarded grant from The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
- New publication by Dr Agnieszka Koscianska
- A new monograph 'Shakespeare’s Postmodernism' by Prof. David Maziashvili
- Leverhulme Fellowship awarded to Professor Dan Healey for study of Stalin’s Gulag and its Medical Staff
- Readiness and resilience of the health systems of the UK and Russia during Covid-19 epidemics in 2020-2021: impacts of priorities, shortages and rationing
- To See a Moose: The History of Polish Sex Education
- REES MSc student Tina Maglakelidze receives a Fulbright Award
- REES, in conversation with……Dr Agnieszka Kościańska, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
- REES MSc student Theresa Lütkefend's report on veterans in Ukraine
- REES Alumnus Pierre Thévenin's new article on Soviet and Russian approaches to the international law of the sea
- Chiara Lovotti
- IMCC researchers are co-mentoring 9 out of 12 fully-funded 'Google Summer of Code 2021' student projects
- New article: 'A Prominent Spy: Mehdi Ben Barka, Czechoslovak intelligence and Eastern Bloc espionage in the Third World during the Cold War'
- Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
- Dr Nutsa Batiashvili
- Dr Irma Karaulashvili
- The Karabakh war: how Russia’s image has deteriorated in both Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Xin Guan
- ‘Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976–2014’
- Monterey Summer Symposium on Russia 2021
- Civil Resistance: How Ideas, Peoples, and Movements can change Politics
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- REES DPhil Candidate Jan Farfal Santander Fellow
- A Glimpse into the Ukrainian Far Right: Cases of the National Corps and the Right Sector
- Dr Jody La Porte
- OSGA welcomes Professor Lenka Buštíková
- Congratulations to Dr Anna Wilson on John Fell OUP Research Grant
- “Dissidences sexuelles et de genre en URSS et dans l’espace postsoviétique; Sexual and Gender Dissent in the USSR and Post-Soviet Space”
- Russia-Israel relations after the fall of Netanyahu
- Alexander Soldatkin
- Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani’s "Journey to Europe"
- Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness (Dedalus, 2024)
- Unlocking the Door (Cezanne, 2017)
- Alex MacFarlane
- Clifford Marcus
- Emily Tamkin
- Geoffrey Gosby
- Margaret Miller
- Ollie Matthews
- Walker Thompson
- A new article co-written by REES MPhil student David Saveliev
- Congratulations to Professor Christopher Gerry!
- The buck stops elsewhere: authoritarian resilience and the politics of responsibility for COVID-19 in Russia
- A new article by Agnieszka Kościańska, Agnieszka Kosiorowska and Natalia Pomian, “A woman should follow her own conscience”
- REES Discussion Group
- "How Does the Ukraine Crisis Affect the Gulf" by Dr Diana Galeeva
- Dr Alieva awarded a Richard von Weizsacker fellowship at Robert Bosch Academy
- Call for papers for the 12th edition of the Genealogies of Memory conference History and Memory in International
- Georgian Literature / Translation Project on ELN
- Statement on the Russian War against Ukraine
- Bryn Windsor MSc Student 2020-2021
- The Russian invasion of Ukraine and its public health consequences
- Competing identities of the past and future in Russia and Ukraine
- Russian public opinion and the impact of sanctions
- Contact building: emotional exchanges between counsellees and counsellors in the late socialist period in Poland
- The Grave Political Consequences of “Pragmatic” Energy Interests
- Putin's Russia: people increasingly identify with the Soviet Union – here's what that means
- REES MPhil student David Saveliev's new article
- REES DPhil candidate Anna J. Davis’ new OBO Policy Brief on ‘Implications of the Russian Occupation of Civil Nuclear Sites in Ukraine’
- 21st Annual Aleksanteri Conference THE NEW ERA OF INSECURITY: How Russia’s War in Ukraine Changes the World
- Elizabeth Teague OBE
- Dr Makovicky and Prof Kościańska (University of Warsaw) have received AHRC funding for Gender Wars: East and South
- Dr Magdalena Solska
- Dr Andre Thiemann
- Dr Marcin Ślarzyński
- ENC Analysis – Music, Underground Art, and the “Realpolitik” Dilemma: A Vision of the Future?
- Rent Distribution Modes in Azerbaijan and Belarus: Implications for the Opposition
- War as a sign of weakness: Failure of reforms and of reframing the Russian nation
- RESC Emeritus Professor Archie Brown evaluates the life and achievements of Mikhail Gorbachev in today’s Guardian
- Dr David Maziashvili’s new monograph "Shakespeare's Postmodernism" nominated for the "Saba" 20th Literary Award
- Dr Muzaffer Kutlay
- Paul Thomas
- Dr Nicolette Makovicky has published the policy paper Migrants and Taxes. Challenges of fiscal inclusion in the digital age, co-authored with Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol of the Work Rights Centre.
- REES Alumnus Jonathan Raspe's article 'Soviet National Autonomy in the 1920s: The Dilemmas of Ukraine’s Jewish Population'
- Professor Agnieszka Kościańska
- Belarus in Crisis: From Domestic Unrest to the Russia-Ukraine War
- REES/RESC Emeritus Professor Dan Healey discusses Russian homophobia on TV-Rain channel
- Ukrainian Cultures Reading Group established at RESC
- Russia, Ukraine and state survival through neutrality by Professor Roy Allison
- REES DPhil Candidate, Anna J. Davis, on making her teaching flexible and inclusive, and the positive benefits it has had for her students
- The New Black Sea: How the War in Ukraine is Reshaping the Region
- Gender Wars: East and South
- Sofia Borushkina
- Elia Bescotti
- Dr Shota Matitashvili
- Dr Giorgi Cheishvili
- Understanding Public Opinion in Ukraine Prior to and Amidst Russia’s Aggression: A Cross-Survey Analysis
- Ivan Gunjic
- Dr Nino Kavtaria
- Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield publish new research on the Russian 2020 constitutional vote
- Dr Marnie Howlett on 'Talking History' discussing the history and making of modern Ukraine
- The West and Russia's wars: Why norms and psychology matter as much as military strength
- Stories from Saba: Selected Fables from The Book of Wisdom and Lies
- Information Structure in Georgian, by Geoffrey Gosby (2016)
- Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and Stalinist Culture of Time
- Jo Shortt Butler
- Leigh Morris
- Giles Humphreys-Evans
- REES Alumni Huawei Zheng's new role at the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies
- Russia’s Case for War against Ukraine: Legal Claims, Political Rhetoric, and Instrumentality in a Fracturing International Order
- Congratulations to Dr Anna Wilson and Dr Puma Shen and the rest of the UK-Taiwan project team on winning the ESRC-NSTC grant to fund the project "Information Threats to Democratic Societies of UK and Taiwan: Interdisciplinary Approaches"!
- Dr Mustafa Izzuddin
- REES DPhil candidate, Anna J. Davis, selected as Grímsson Fellow
- Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
- Nagorny Karabakh: The Consequences of International Inaction
- "How and when should we (not) speak?: Ethical knowledge production about the Russia–Ukraine war"
- Dr Dimitar Bechev
- Weikang Zhang (张韦康)
- At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia
- Cole Anselmo
- Professor Michael Rochlitz
- De-colonising the Azerbaijan-Armenian Conflict
- Prof. David Maziashvili awarded Dante Alighieri Gold Medal and Honorary Diploma for staging Contemporary Ballet "Beatrice"
- 'Blood on the Snow' by Professor Robert Service - just published
- New Publication: ‘Playing with fire’: implications of Russia’s Occupation of Chornobyl and Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plants for the global nuclear order by Anna J. Davis
- Conference report: Ukraine’s recovery: rebuilding with research
- Dr Teona Lomsadze
- Multimodal analysis of disinformation and misinformation
- Productive Sexological Self-Censorship in Late Communist Poland between State and Church
- Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili
- Professor Paul Chaisty
- Nicolette Makovicky
- Lisa Haynes
- Professor Dan Healey
- Megi Kartsivadze
- Talia Kollek
- Professor Roy Allison
- Professor Judith Pallot
- Dr Alex Pravda
- Professor Robert Service
- Dr Anna Wilson
- Dr Leila Alieva
- Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski
- Dr Anna Wilson of REES and IMCC has published in co-authorship two articles
- Why Putin is the product of Russian democracy
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- Global Initiatives Grant Report – Tax, Society, and People – Using anthropology to teach young people about tax
- Russia and Iran – new publication by REES alumna Dr Nicole Grajewski
- Dr Mihail Chiru
- Dr Stephen Hall
- Dr Katherine A New
- Lia Chokoshvili
- Dr Irina Demetradze-Renz
- Dr Othon Anastasakis
- Ukraine’s Controversial New Plan to Enlist More Soldiers
- An interview about the latest drone attacks on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
- Dr Marnie Howlett
- World futures through RT’s eyes: multimodal dataset and interdisciplinary methodology
- Soft power lessons from Russia’s war: How to overcome polarisation and strengthen liberal democracy
- Congratulations to REES' Dr Marnie Howlett on Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) Research Grant
- AER General Assembly & Bureau Meeting 8th Black Sea Summit
- To Return or Not? Ukrainian Women’s Experiences of Internal Displacement
- Goderdzi Chokheli’s Human Sadness (Dedalus, 2024)
- Dr A. Austin Garey
- Dr Diana Galeeva
- Dr Irina Demetradze-Renz
- Dr Stephen Hall
- Simon Holin
- Will Kingston-Cox
- Franciszek Mlynikowski
- Łucja Skolankiewicz
- Han Xiao
- Dr Katarzyna Walecka
- Dr Nataliya Kibita
- Boy Ibisch
- Dr Marnie Howlett on BBC radio – Ukraine tensions
- Russia’s War Economy – video co-created by Dr Michael Rochlitz
- New co-authored article by Dr Michael Rochlitz in ‘Comparative Political Studies’
- REES' Dr Marnie Howlett on BBC radio 5
- Dr Tea Kamushadze
- Tyyne Karjalainen
- Dr Giorgi Macharashvili
- Dr Gül Mükerrem Öztürk
- 'The International Risk' Podcast with Dr Leila Alieva
- Arystanbek Akylbay
- 'Ukraine Will Not Surrender to Russia', a new article co-authored by Dr Marnie Howlett
- How Russians Understand the New Russia
- Dr Jarosław Kuisz
- Professor Karolina Wigura
- Dr Shuhei Mizoguchi
- Reframing Reflexivity: Collaborative Ethics, Collective Responsibility, and Learnings from Researching Russia’s War against Ukraine
- Agnieszka Kościańska's new book: The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe.
- How the Ukraine war could end - in four maps
- 'Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate' Edited by Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey and Tracy McDonald
- Losing and finding home twice: Ukrainian women’s experiences of secondary internal displacement
- Book Launch: 'How Russians Understand the New Russia'
- Ukraine is sending the war back to Russia — just in time for Victory Day
- Dr Damian Strycharz
- Finding the “Field” in our “Homes” and our “Homes” in the “Field”: A Critique of the “Home–Field” Dichotomy
- Why Donetsk 'fortress belt' matters so much for Ukraine's defences