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The featured photo shows  Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, flanked by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Federal Security Service Chief Alexander Bortnikov, right, arrives on a boat after inspecting battleships during a navy parade marking Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File) Friday, May 9, 2014
May 7, 2018
The United States has recognized a return to major power rivalry in recent official documents such as the National Security Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review. This is a...
Professor Doug Rogers in his office in the Department of Anthropology building. Photograph by Leah Salovey for the FAS Dean’s Office.
April 30, 2018
In his 10 years at Yale, Doug Rogers—associate professor of anthropology—has published two award-winning books, a dozen journal articles, and eight book chapters,...
Russian street traffic
April 13, 2018
The Russian Studies Program at Yale will host a conference titled, “Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science...
Johnson Center conference addresses cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence
April 9, 2018
Most companies are not very well prepared for the weaponizing of cyberspace by foreign governments. That was part of an assessment of the current state of cyberspace by Eric...
Professor Thomas Graham (right); and Professor Stephen Hanson (left)
April 9, 2018
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
April 6, 2018
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...
God Is a Russian
April 5, 2018
“Politics is the art of identifying and neutralizing the enemy.” —Ivan Ilyin, 1948 The Russian looked Satan in the eye, put God on the psychoanalyst’s couch, and understood...