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Event Recaps

Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film, Semester II
The series Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film commemorating the centennial of the 1917 Revolution continued throughout the Spring semester. Six films shown in the second...
Professor Thomas Graham (right); and Professor Stephen Hanson (left)
On March 18, in a landslide victory of over 76 % of the votes, Vladimir Putin extended his time in office for another six years. Thomas Graham, Senior Lecturer in Russian...
Professor Fred Strebeigh on Defending Russian Nature
A number of images has lately been associated with Russia—invasion of Crimea, European energy security, election hacking— but “environmental protectionism” is not one of them...
Russian Journalist Provides a Fresh View of Moscow’s Politics
“In a physical sense, traveling from Moscow to New York is easy. In a political sense, it feels like going to a different planet,” said Russian journalist Mikhail Rostovsky...
Rita Safariants, Assistant Professor of Russian, St. Olaf College
“Can music change the world?” is the question Tomek Lipiński, a co-founder of a Polish punk band Brygada Kryzys, is faced with at the end of the film Beats of Freedom. At the...
Chapayev poster
The last screening in the Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film series this semester took place on Wednesday, December 6. The film, Chapayev (Чапаев, 1934), was the first ‘...
Fragment of an Empire Movie Poster
The series Red Century: Russian Revolution on Film continued on Wednesday, November 29, with Fragment of an Empire (Обломок империи, 1929) the last silent film by Fridrikh...