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Annual Report

2007–2008

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sCHOLaRs 13

Case PROGRaM 22

MeetInGs 27

OutReaCH 59

FunDInG 66

COntents

Unless otherwise noted, photographs for this report were provided by William Craft Brumfield, photographer and Professor of Slavic Languages at Tulane University. The originals of these photographs are in the permanent collection of the Photographic Archives of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.


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The Kennan Institute was founded as a division of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in December 1974 through the joint initiative of Ambassador George F. Kennan, then Wilson Center Director James Billington, and historian S.

Frederick Starr. Named in honor of Ambassador Kennan’s relative, George Kennan “the Elder” (1845–1924), a nineteenth-century explorer of Russia and Siberia, the Kennan Institute is committed to improving American expertise and knowledge about Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region. It is one of several regional studies programs of the Wilson Center. The Center is an international, interdisciplinary, scholarly institution that fosters scholarship in the humanities and social sciences and encourages dialogue between the disciplines and the professions. The director of the Kennan Institute reports to the director of the Woodrow Wilson Center and receives guidance from the Kennan Institute Advisory Council and the Kennan Council.

The Kennan Institute offers residential research scholarships in the humanities and social sciences to academic scholars and specialists from government, the media, and the private sector. Thanks to its location in Washington, D.C., the Kennan Institute is able to provide its scholars with access to libraries, archives, research facilities, and human resources that are among the finest in the United States. Following in the tradition of the Wilson Center, the Institute also provides decision makers in the private and public sectors with access to the expertise of its scholars in residence through such activities as Policy Forums at the Department of State, its public lecture program, and interviews with the media.

In addition to its residential scholar program, the Institute administers an active program of public lectures featuring scholars and public figures from the United States, Russia, and other successor states to the Soviet Union. The Institute makes the results of its activities known in a variety of publications including Meeting Reports, Occasional Papers, Special Reports, and commercially published books. The majority of Kennan Institute publications are available free of charge and are regularly distributed to individuals, university libraries, and companies throughout the world, and are available through the Internet.

Through its innovative workshop series, the Kennan Institute serves as a forum where scholars can develop and discuss their research pertaining to a variety of topics concerning the region. The workshops bring together scholars with recent field experience from a variety of disciplines, with the goal of producing an original edited volume.

The Kennan Institute and the ISE Center (Information. Scholarship. Education.), Moscow, administer the Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASE) program. The CASE program has established nine thematic research centers at regional Russian universities. The CASEs support advanced research in the social sciences and humanities in Russia’s regions, build networks of scholars within Russia, and provide opportunities for the integration of

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Russian scholars into the international academic community. The CASE program is currently funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

In addition to its office in Washington, the Kennan Institute operates centers in Moscow and Kyiv. The Kennan Moscow Project and Kennan Kyiv Project provide on-the-ground assis-tance to the Washington staff and maintain contacts with various Russian and Ukrainian orga-nizations. The offices organize publications, seminars, and conferences on important current themes featuring Kennan Institute alumni. They serve as the core for Kennan’s Russian and Ukrainian alumni networks.

The Kennan Institute, as part of the Woodrow Wilson Center, is a nonpartisan institution that values its independence from the world of politics. Unlike many academic research cen-ters, however, it seeks to promote dialogue between academic specialists and policymakers. To this end, the Institute convenes scholars, governmental specialists, and other experts to discuss political, social, and economic issues affecting Russia and the other successor states to the Soviet Union, seeking always to place these issues within their historical context.

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DIReCtOR’s ReVIeWMusIc and roses In the aIr

About three-quarters of the way into the evening’s concert at Odesa’s magnificent Neo-Moorish concert hall, Maestro Hobart Earle interrupted the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual City Day concert on September 2, 2008 to address the audi-

ence of more than 1,000 music lovers. The hall, which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century as the city’s stock exchange, has provided a backdrop for far more bril-liant musical performances over the years than human memory can retain. Earle, who has been the Orchestra’s Music Director and Principle Conductor for nearly two decades, is him-self as exotic as the hall and the city itself. An American raised in Venezuela, educated at Princeton, and trained by Leonard Bernstein, Earle launched his music career in Vienna. As Gorbachevian perestroika took flight during the late 1980s, Earle joined an Austrian ensemble that toured the Soviet Union. Stopping in the charming port city of Odesa, Earle, in many ways, never has left. He assumed leadership of the struggling local orchestra and has built it into an internationally recognized master ensemble.

Earle’s concerts marking the anniversary of Odesa’s founding in 1794 have become legendary among the local cognoscenti. He carefully selects a range of music which represents the dozen nationalities that have made Odesa a wonderful city. On this evening, the orchestra played music by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Greek Nikos Skalkattos, Georgian Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Italian Gioacchino Rossini, Frenchman George Bizet, and Armenian Aram Khachaturian to pay homage to the contributions each national group has made to Odesan life. Similarly, Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody for Strings and Mykola Lyssenko’s rousing overture to Taras Bulba stood for Ukraine, while a stirring medley combining Hava Nagila with music from The Fiddler on the Roof honored the vibrant Jewish elements of Odesan history. Earle dedicated the concert to the city of New Orleans with a Blues written for orchestra by his mentor Leonard Bernstein, observing the suffering of the city inflicted by Hurricane Katrina three years before. He did so as Hurricane Gustav roared ashore a-third-of-the-way around the world.

When Earle put down his baton and turned to address the crowd in his beautiful Russian, he paid homage to cultural diversity in a different way. He spoke of the enormous contribu-tions to Odesa and Ukraine of the work by an American scholar who labored away in distant archives throughout the 1970s and 1980s to write a history of Odesa which no one in the city could have written. He spoke of the critical importance that scholar’s work has played in allowing Odesa to recover its history following the forced amnesia of the Soviet period. He spoke of the special role scholars can play in preserving the history of others.

As Earle spoke, a spotlight focused on a grey-haired, grandmotherly woman in the center of the Hall. Patricia Herlihy, Professor Emeritus of Brown University, is all that Maestro Earle


declared her to be. Her history of Odesa, recently published in Russian, has become a core text for anyone who wants to study the complex and rich story of a city that has enriched Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, and world culture. As Herlihy stood to acknowledge the applause and cheers of those in the room, ushers rushed forward with an armful of roses presented by Odesans as thanks for all that she has done for their city.

Every scholar probably dreams in some way of just such a moment, yet most understand that such recognition is rare. Scholars—including Patricia Herlihy, who is a former Kennan Institute scholar and a continuing advisor on many of our councils—have learned to work in obscurity. They change the world quietly, reader by reader and student by student. Their ideas enter into the world silently until, at some moment, a reader who can be distant in time and space learns from those ideas and changes the world. Patricia Herlihy’s intellectual voyage is unusual only in that she has had the opportunity to have those invisible readers become tan-gible in a concert hall in Odesa on a beautiful and gentle late summer’s eve.

Patricia Herlihy’s scholarship has changed how Odesans think of their city, just as the work of many other historians change how all of us see the world. Their impact does not always appear in flow charts and institutional accounts of success. A calculation of the num-ber of times that their works have been cited in distinguished journals only begins to capture their impact. Like Patricia Herlihy herself, scholars toil away in obscurity, digging through archives or collecting survey data, compiling and analyzing, and bringing their insights into life through a myriad of publications both obscure and merely underappreciated. Russian scholars tell us about a United States we ourselves never see; Americans offer insights into Ukraine which Ukrainians would otherwise never know, and so on and so forth. It is the work of Patricia Herlihy—and the more than twelve hundred scholars like her who have worked at the Kennan Institute—that represents the true measure of this institution’s con-tribution over the years.

Just in the past twelve months, the Kennan Institute has hosted 71 scholars who have explored the post-Soviet space, assessed the legacies of both Soviet rule and the Russian Empire, and identified prospects for the future through the study of a highly diverse range of topics. Long-term scholars such as Nadezhda Aydayeva, Alexander Duka, Petr Panov, and Scott Radnitz scrutinized domestic politics in Russia and surrounding states, on both the elite and mass levels, to uncover the dynamics behind governmental public relations and politi-cal communication, the institutionalization of power elites, elections, and mass mobilization and networks. Alexander Petrov breached the realm of international politics and provided an historical perspective of the relationship between the United States and Russia through his study of the beginning of Russian-American relations 200 years ago. Other scholars such as Vitaliy Zhuhay and Ildar Zulkarnay turned their scholarly gazes toward the U.S., looking at local media and how informal institutions effect formal institutions of self-government in the U.S. Andrey Rezaev brought a similar comparative perspective when he looked at the edu-cational and social experiences of transnational migrants in St. Petersburg and Washington, D.C. Migration is an especially pressing issue for the countries of the former Soviet Union, where large-scale international migration is a relatively new phenomenon. Rezaev’s research project, along with Dmitry Dubrovskiy’s investigation of the institutionalized tools of discrim-ination in Russia and Leyla Keough’s study of the woman migrant’s experience in post-socialist Europe, continues the ongoing work of the Kennan Institute to elucidate the growing policy ramifications of migration and tolerance in the post-Soviet space.


As several of our scholars this past year have demonstrated, the study of religion, in its institutional, conceptual, and practical manifestations, provides cross-cutting perspective that reveals how identity and diversity affect politics and society. Irina Garri, for example, compared the impact of Buddhism on politics in Russia with its impact in China. Chingiz Mammadov seized upon the opportunity offered by the experience of interfaith and interethnic tolerance in Azerbaijan to suggest how current religious and ethnic tension in Iraq might be moderated. Alexander Knysh mounted a historical study of the encounter between an expanding Russian Empire and the Muslim population of the Northern Caucasus of the 19th century to challenge ongoing stereotypes about Muslim resistance in these areas today. Jacques Levesque considered the role of Islam in contemporary Russian politics through a closer study of the Chechen wars.

In reflecting upon the historical and cultural legacies of Russia and its surrounding areas, Knysh, along with several other Kennan Institute scholars this past year, has achieved the Institute’s continuous objective of placing issues into their larger context, creating room—in a city preoccupied with immediate policy concerns—for longer-term perspective. Although dealing with different historical periods, Eugene Avrutin, through his study of identification politics and Jewish accommodation in Imperial Russia, and Kate Brown, through her study of the history of the Chernobyl Zone, uncovered larger issues about power, identity and the control of space and movement. Vladyslav Grynevych assessed the Second World War and the Holocaust in the historical memory of Jews and Ukrainians. Elena Yushkova evaluated the influence of Isadora Duncan on Russian art and Russian mentality, and organized a special seminar for the Kennan Institute that highlighted Duncan’s modern dance methods.

In addition to this remarkable array of scholars who have enriched the intellectual vitality of the Kennan Institute this past year, the Institute is proud to continue to host four remark-able scholars engaged in some of the most crucial research topics for the former Soviet area. Murray Feshbach continues to consider the policy implications of population, health, and

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environmental trends in Russia. Alexandra Vacroux’s work reveals institutional obstacles of the Russian state through assessing failed healthcare reform in Russia. Jan Kalicki continues to evaluate energy and security issues and opportunities in Russia and its surrounding states, while Ambassador William Green Miller works toward providing understanding for the evolv-ing U.S.-Ukraine relationship.

The Kennan Institute also welcomes an impressive list of new scholars. Currently, Darima Amogolonova examines the challenges that globalization poses on Siberian ethnic elites; Melanie Feakins monitors the expansion of St. Petersburg and its effects on its inhabitants; Cynthia Hooper researches historical instances of collaboration and coercion in the Soviet system; Roman Kalytchak looks for lessons for Ukraine in U.S. federal and state relation-ships in international affairs; Volodymyr Kulyk appraises language, identity, and democracy in post-Soviet Ukraine; Natalia Nikitenko works to reconcile the incompatibility between national interests and international law standards regarding human rights and justice; Yuriy Nosik considers the concept of trade secrets at the turning point of intellectual property law theory; Gül Berna Özcan studies the control of markets and governance through strategic assets in Central Asia; Tatiana Riabova observes gender in the political discourse of contem-porary Russia; and Vladislav Zubok assesses the generation of Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. The Kennan Institute looks forward to the results of these various studies.

Few, if any, of the 32 long-term and 39 short-term scholars who have worked at the Kennan Institute during the past year are ever likely to bring a concert by a major symphony orchestra to a halt. Most, if not all, will change the world around them in positive, but not always visible ways. The accomplishment of the Kennan Institute this past year—as dur-ing each of the 34 years that have come before—has been to help make such scholarship possible, and to bring it to the attention of people who otherwise would never know of its existence. Like Maestro Earle, our task is to be sure that ideas which can change our under-standing of the world can take flight.

In closing I would like to make special note of the Kennan Institute staff in Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv, without whom none of the accomplishments contained in this report would have been possible. I have had the incommensurable good fortune of working with a group of individuals over the past year that has consistently set a high standard to which I can only aspire. Ekaterina Alekseeva, Edmita Bulota, Joseph Dresen, Renata Kosc-Harmatiy, Sarah Dixon Klump, Pavel Korolev, Edita Krunkaityte, Galina Levina, Rachel Madenyika, Mary Elizabeth Malinkin, Margaret Paxson, Irina Petrova, William Pomeranz, Yaroslav Pylynskyi, Maryna Rosinska, Nataliya Samozvanova, Anna Toker, S. Todd Weinberg, and Lidiya Zubytska have been true colleagues. Markian Dobczansky and Megan Yasenchak, who left the Institute this past year, are already being missed. I value deeply their collective and individual intelligence, imagina-tion, integrity, and good cheer. All who care about the Kennan Institute are in their debt.

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Kennan InstItute advIsory councIl

the honorable richard miles*Chair

Karen dawisha Miami University

nadia diuk*National Endowment for Democracy

olga filippovaKharkiv University of Humanities

Ilya gaidukInstitute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

juliet johnsonMcGill University

ruth mandelUniversity College London

serhii PlokhiiHarvard University

michael thumannDie Zeit

grace Kennan warneckeConsultant

richard wortman*Columbia University

*The Kennan Institute would like to extend special thanks to outgoing Advisory Council members Nadia Diuk, Ambassador Richard Miles, and Richard Wortman. We greatly appreciate their support and hard work these past years.

russIan aluMnI assocIatIon advIsory councIl

emil Payin, chairInstitute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

boris laninAll-Russian State Tax Academy, Moscow

Andrei makarychevState Linguistic University, Nizhniy Novgorod

Irina PervovaSt. Petersburg State University

Victoria zhuravlevaRussian State University for the Humanities (RGGU), Moscow

uKraInIan aluMnI advIsory councIl

Antonina Kolodii, chairLviv Regional Institute of Public Administration, National Academy of Public Administration, Office of the President of Ukraine

Volodymyr AndersonOdesa National University

olga nosovaKharkiv National University of Internal Affairs

Andriy rukkasTaras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

nataliya VysotskaKyiv State Linguistic University

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aDVIsORY COunCILsThe Advisory Council advises the Kennan Institute on all scholarly aspects of its work. The Council reviews Title VIII-Supported Research Scholarship, Short-Term, and Central Eurasian Short-Term grant applications. Council members, who normally serve for four years, also assist the Institute individually by advising staff members and helping organize conferences. The Russian Alumni Association Advisory Council advises the Kennan Institute on the direction and form of alumni activities in the Russian Federation. The Ukrainian Alumni Association Advisory Council performs similar duties in Ukraine. Alumni Council members normally serve for two years and represent various regions of Russia and Ukraine. The members during the 2007-08 program year were:

Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars


Kennan COunCILFor over 30 years, the Kennan Institute has worked to improve American expertise and knowl-edge about Russia and the other successor states to the Soviet Union. Recognizing the need to build on the successes of the past, in 2001 the Institute established a private sector advi-sory board—the Kennan Council. Members are drawn from the worlds of business, finance, law, and public policy. The Kennan Council was founded with two goals in mind. First, it is intended to help ensure the financial strength of the Kennan Institute. Second, it enables the Institute to broaden its programming to inform and learn from the issues confronting the private sector in Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region. Members are asked to help identify which issues, whether political, social, or economic, are of the greatest concern to the private sector, and to help with fundraising.

The Kennan Institute has always brought together the worlds of academia and public poli-cy in discussing Russia and the other successor states to the Soviet Union. The creation of the Kennan Council has allowed the Institute to bring the concerns and experience of the private sector into this discussion as well.

mr. david baileyExxonMobil Corporation

mr. thomas craig bennettSociété Générale

ms. Patricia clohertyDelta Private Equity Partners

mr. richard herold BP

mr. fawzi Kyriakos-saadCredit Suisse

mr. james c. langdon, jr.Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP

mr. shawn mccormickTNK-BP

the honorable thomas PickeringHills and Company

mr. Paul rodziankoHermitage Museum Foundation

mr. Peter l. schafferA La Vieille Russie ms. laurel durst strong

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The Kennan Institute’s residential fellowship program supports outstanding research on Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region in the fields of the social sci-ences and the humanities. During the 2007–08 program year, the Institute sup-

ported nine types of grants: Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships, Galina Starovoitova Fellowships on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Senior Scholarships, Senior Policy Scholarships, Public Policy Scholarships, Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholarships, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholarships, and Short-Term grants. The competitive application process is open to qualified academic scholars as well as practi-tioners from government, media, and the private sector. All programs are limited to can-didates with doctoral degrees or equivalent professional achievement, except Short-Term grants, for which an advanced Ph.D. candidate may apply.

The Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholarship program, which began in September 2003, is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the United States Department of State. ECA also funds the Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution. Research Scholarships and Short-Term grants for U.S. citizens and permanent residents are funded by the Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII), administered by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State. Short-Term grants for non-U.S. citizens are funded by the Kennan Institute’s George F. Kennan Fund.

Kennan Institute scholars have direct access to libraries, research facilities, and human resources that are among the finest available in the United States. Resident scholars regu-larly participate in public lectures and seminars, specialized conferences, and informal presentations at the Institute and the Woodrow Wilson Center. The Institute provides a professional working environment where scholars forge links with American and interna-tional colleagues and institutions. Resident scholars have the opportunity to disseminate their research to a larger audience through the publications and public lecture programs of the Institute. The Central Eurasian Short-Term (CEST) grant program allows former scholars living in the region to extend their research projects after their return home.

During the 2007–08 program year, the Kennan Institute supported 78 scholars whose work included topics in politics, sociology, history, literature, economics, and the arts throughout the former Soviet Union. The scholars at the Kennan Institute during the past year came from around the world and formed a community. This community of scholars contributed to the life of the Institute and helped to further American understanding of the social, political, and economic dynamics of the successor states to the Soviet Union.

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GalIna starovoItova fellows on huMan rIGhts and conflIct resolutIon

DMITRY DUBROVSKIY, Executive Director, Ethnic Studies Program, European University, and Chair, Department of Modern Ethnography, Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg. “Institution of Special Humanitarian Expert Examination in Russia: Struggle Against Discrimination or a Tool of Discrimination?” August 2007-February 2008.

PETR PANOV, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Perm State University. “The Institution of Elections in Russian Politics: Instrument of Political Consolidation or a Source of Conflicts?” February 2008-April 2008.

ANDREY REZAEV, Professor, Department of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University. “Transnational Migrants in St. Petersburg and Washington, D.C.: A Comparative Analysis of the City’s Educational Policies and Practices of Social Inclusion and Exclusion.” January 2008-June 2008.

senIor PolIcy scholar

WILLIAM GREEN MILLER, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. “Creation of a Relationship between Ukraine and the U.S.” January 2003-December 2008.

woodrow wIlson center senIor scholars

MURRAY FESHBACH, Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. “Policy Implications of Population, Health, and Environment Trends in Russia.” October 2006-December 2008.

JAN KALICKI, Counselor for International Strategy, Chevron Corporation, CA. “Policy Issues and Opportunities in Russia and the New Independent States.” July 2006-June 2010.

ALExANDRA VACROUx, Independent Scholar. “Inside the Black Box: What Failed Health Care Reforms Tell Us about the Russian State.” September 2006-August 2010.

woodrow wIlson center fellows

ALExANDER KNYSH, Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. “Islam and Empire in the Northern Caucasus.” September 2007-May 2008.

VOLODYMYR KULYK, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. “Language, Identity, and Democracy in Post-Soviet Ukraine.” September 2008-May 2009.

CHINGIZ MAMMADOV, Professor of Political Science, Khazar University; Program Manager, Counterpart-International, Baku. “Studying the Experience of Interfaith and Interethnic Tolerance in Azerbaijan to Moderate Current Religious and Inter-Ethnic Confrontation in Iraq.” September 2007-May 2008.

GüL BERNA ÖZCAN, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance and International Business, School of Management of Royal Holloway College, University of London; Associate Fellow, Enterprise LSE, London School of Economics. “Control of Markets and Governance through Strategic Assets in Central Asia.” September 2008-May 2009.

My fellowship with the Kennan Institute and studies at the Library of Congress have greatly broadened my academic outlook, and become a powerful stimulus for my further work.

—Alexander lokshin, june 2008


woodrow wIlson center PublIc PolIcy scholars

JACqUES LEVESqUE, Professor of Political Science, University of Quebec, Montreal. “Russia and the Muslem World: Dilemmas Resulting from the Chechen Wars and 9/11.” March 2008-June 2008.

VLADISLAV ZUBOK, Associate Professor, Department of History, Temple University and Co-Director of Summer Programs in Russia and NIS Countries, The National Security Archive. “Children of Zhivago: The Generation of Russian Intelligentsia After Stalin.” September-December 2008.

tItle vIII-suPPorted research scholars

EUGENE AVRUTIN, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “A Legible People: Identification Politics and Jewish Accommodation in Imperial Russia.” January 2008-May 2008.

KATE BROWN, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “The Zone: A History of Incarcerated Space and a Spatial History of the Chernobyl Zone.” January 2007-May 2007, September 2007-February 2008.

MELANIE FEAKINS, Visiting Assistant Professor and Researcher, Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. “Invisible City: St. Petersburg Expanding Between the Walls.” September 2008-May 2009.

CYNTHIA HOOPER, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross. “Terror from within: Collaboration and Coercion in Soviet Power, 1924-1964.” September 2008-May 2009.

LEYLA KEOUGH, Independent Scholar, Washington, D.C. “‘Driven Women’ and Migration Management in Post-Socialist Europe.” August 2007-June 2008.

SCOTT RADNITZ, Independent Scholar, Boston, MA. “Mass Mobilization, Networks, and the State in Central Asia.” July 2007-December 2007.

fulbrIGht-Kennan InstItute research scholars

DARIMA AMOGOLONOVA, Senior Researcher, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Ude, Russia. “Siberian Ethnic Elites and the Challenges of Globalization.” September 2008-March 2009.

NADEZHDA AYDAYEVA, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Communications, East Siberian State Technological University, Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation. “Substantiation of the Governmental Public Relations Concept as an Effective Model of Political Communication.” September 2007-February 2008.

ALExANDER DUKA, Chair, Department of Sociology of Authorities, Power Structures and Civil

Society, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. “Institutionalization of Power Elites in Post-Communist Countries.” March 2008-September 2008.

IRINA GARRI, Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Cultural and Religious Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Buriatiia. “Buddhism and Politics in Russia and China: A Comparative Study.” September 2007-February 2008.

VLADYSLAV GRYNEVYCH, Senior Research Associate, Department of Jewish Studies, Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv. “The Second World War and the Holocaust in the Historical Memory of Jews and Ukrainians.” April 2008-December 2008.

ROMAN KALYTCHAK, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Diplomatic Service, Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko Lviv National University. “The U.S. Federal and State Relationship in International Affairs: Lessons for Ukraine.” September 2008-March 2009.

NATALIA NIKITENKO, Associate Professor, Department of State and Law, East Siberian Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Irkutsk. “National Interests of State and International Law Standards in Fields of Human Rights and Justice: The Problem of Compatibility.” August 2008-December 2008.


YURIY NOSIK, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Law, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. “Trade Secret Concept at the Turning Point of Intellectual Property Law Theory.” September 2008-March 2009.

ALExANDER PETROV, Senior Research Fellow, Center for North American Studies, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “Bicentennial of the Beginning of Russian-American Relations: The Development of the Russian-American Frontiers in the 19th Century.” January 2008-July 2008.

TATIANA RIABOVA, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ivanovo State University, Russia. “Gender in the Political Discourse of Contemporary Russia.” September 2008-March 2009.

ELENA YUSHKOVA, Senior Lecturer, Vologda Branch of Moscow Academy for Humanities. “Isadora Duncan and Her Influence on Russian Art and Mentality.” September 2007-February 2008.

VITALIY ZHUHAY, Lecturer, Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine. “The Analysis of the Criteria and Conditions for a Successful Functioning of Quality Press in the U.S.” September 2007-February 2008.

ILDAR ZULKARNAY, Chair, Department of Territorial Development, Socio-Economic Research Institute, Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian Federation. “Role of Informal Institutions in Effectiveness of Formal Institutions of Self-Government in the U.S.” March 2008-September 2008.

short-terM scholars

SHELDON ANDERSON, Professor, Department of History, Miami University, Ohio. “Sports, Soviet Bloc Relations, and Globalization.” July 2008.

HILARY APPEL, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. “The Politics of East European Tax Reform.” June 2008.

SVITLANA BATURINA, Research Associate, Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv. “The Work of Ukrainian Historians during the 1940s-1980s in Comparison with American Historians of the Same Period.” May 2008.

AURELIE BIARD, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Political Science, Paris. “The Religious Occurrence in Post-Soviet Recompositions: Tatarstan, Altay, and Kyrgyzstan.” November 2007.

DANIEL BLUMLO, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Florida State University. “Russian Alaska: Russian Creoles’ Sense of Identity throughout the 19th Century.” September 2008.

ALExANDER BOGOMOLOV, President, Association of Middle East Studies, Kyiv. “Studying Religious Diversity in the Complex Political Environment: The Case of Crimea at the Turn of the 21st Century.” October 2007.

KENNETH BOSSONG, Co-Director, Ukrainian-American Environmental Association, MD. “Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology Options for Ukraine.” November 2007-December 2007.

JOSEPH BRADLEY, Professor, Department of History, University of Tulsa. “Science, Patriotism, and the Public: A History of the Moscow Polytechnical Museum.” October 2007.

DORENA CAROLI, Independent Scholar, Ravenna, Italy. “Cultural and Scientific Relations between the Soviet

I would like to thank the Kennan Institute staff for its devotion to the mission of bridging academic research and policymaking, and for bridging different countries and cultures.

—nadezhda Aydaeva, february 2008


Union, the United States, and Italy in the Interwar Period.” October 2007-November 2007.

ELENA DENISOVA-SCHMIDT, Lecturer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. “The Kremlin’s Influence on the Business Activities of Foreign Companies Operating in Russia.” January 2008-February 2008.

KYLE EVERED, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Michigan State University. “The Geopolitics of Poppies in Eurasia: Examining Past and Ongoing Programs as a Guide to Confronting Contemporary Challenges.” July 2008.

THERESA FREESE, Journalist and Political Analyst, Washington, D.C. “Making De Jure What is De Facto: The Kosovo Effect on South Ossetia and Other Eurasian Conflicts.” January 2008-February 2008.

MYKHAILO GRODZYNSKY, Professor, Department of Physical Geography and Geo-Ecology, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. “The Institutional Organization of Environmental Policy in the USA and Public Participation.” February 2008-March 2008.

STEFAN HEDLUND, Professor, Department of Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. “Reform Resistant Institutions.” April 2008.

JAMES HEINZEN, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rowan University, New Jersey. “Bribery, Popular Attitudes, and Anti-Corruption Campaigns in the Postwar USSR, 1940–1960.” April 2008-May 2008.

LARRY HOLMES, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of South

Alabama. “Ours or Other? Evacuation and the Kirov Region, 1941–1945.” March 2008-April 2008.

ELYOR KARIMOV, Chair, Department of Medieval and Ancient History, Institute of History, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. “A Comparative Approach to the Roots of Politicized Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.” October 2007-November 2007.

MARK KATZ, Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University. “Moscow and the Middle East: Trying to Strike a Balance.” January 2008.

GEORGE KHELASHVILI, Ph.D. candi-date, Department of International Relations, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, UK. “American Foreign Policy towards Georgia.” September 2008-October 2008.

IGOR KON, Senior Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “Corporal Punishment in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” May 2008-June 2008.

ANDREI KOROBKOV, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Middle Tennessee State University. “Migration Aspects of the Post-Soviet Transition.” October 2007.

GALYNA LAKTIONOVA, Deputy Director, State Social Services for Family, Children and Youth, Kyiv. “Social Work for Old Age: New Vision and New Approaches.” October 2007.

ALExANDER LOKSHIN, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “The History of the Zionist Movement in Late Imperial Russia.” May 2008-June 2008.

Discussions with my colleagues at the Kennan Institute were very important in increasing my own understanding of my research question.

–Alexander duka, september 2008


NATALIA MOUSSIENKO, Research Fellow, Department of Culture Strategies, New Technologies and Innovations, Modern Art Research Institute, Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Kyiv. “Mass Culture in Political Process.” April 2008-May 2008.

STEVEN NAFZIGER, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Williams College. “Political Decentralization and Economic Development in 19th Century Russia: The Case of the Zemstvo.” July 2008.

VLADIMIR PAPERNY, President, Vladimir Paperny & Associates, Marina del Ray, California. “American and Soviet Film of the 1930s and 1940s.” April 2008.

MICHAEL PAULAUSKAS, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “The View from 16th and L Streets: The Soviet Embassy and Détente, 1969-1979.” June 2008-July 2008.

EMIL PAYIN, Professor and Director, The Center for Ethno-Political Studies, State University—Higher School of Economics, Moscow. “The Imperial Syndrome: The Nature

and Mechanisms of Recurring Authoritarian and Imperial Trends in Modern Russian Politics.” March 2008.

AARON RETISH, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. “In the Courts of Revolution: Legality, Vengeance, and Citizenship in the Rural Soviet Courtroom, 1917-1953.” July 2008.

RICHARD SAKWA, Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, U.K. “The Yukos Affair and the Development of Russian Energy Policy.” November 2007.

ANATOLE SENKEVITCH, Associate Professor, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “The Reconstruction of Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow: Unpacking Competing Historical Narratives in Russia’s Post-Soviet Search for a Usable Past and National Identity.” October 2007-November 2007.

VIACHESLAV SHATSILLO, Senior Researcher, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “Military-Technical Cooperation

between Russia and the United States during World War I, 1914-1917.” January 2008-February 2008.

ELENA SHTEYN, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. “Interethnic, Inter-Religious, Intercultural: Intermarriage’s Offspring in Today’s Russia.” April 2008.

ANARA TABYSHALIEVA, Assistant Professor, Department of History, James Madison University. “The Color Revolutions in Central Asia: Lessons Learned and Not Learned.” December 2007-January 2008.

DARIUSZ TOLCZYK, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia. “Gulag under Western Eyes.” May 2008.

MARINA TSELYKH, Dean, Department of Foreign Languages, Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute, Russia. “Development of Non-Governmental Social Services in the USA and Russia: Comparative Perspective.” July 2008-August 2008.

MAYA TUROVSKAYA, Film and Theater Critic and Cultural Historian,

My fellowship at the Kennan Institute was the most perfectly organized scholarship experience of my career. Everything at KI was just perfect. The library staff was extremely helpful and efficient and all other resources were always available. The atmosphere was friendly and productive for work. I am very grateful for everything. —Andrey rezaev, july 2008


GalIna starovoItova fellowshIP on huMan rIGhts and conflIct resolutIon

Galina Starovoitova was a leading human rights advocate and a deputy in the Russian lower house of parliament (Duma). She won her Duma seat from St. Petersburg in Russia’s December 1995 legislative elections. Starovoitova served in the Congress of Peoples’ Deputies during 1989–1991 and was a presidential advisor on ethnic relations until 1992. She was a co-found-er of the Democratic Russia movement. She was assassinated in the stairwell leading to her St. Petersburg apartment on 20 November 1998.

The Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution was estab-lished following U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s 25 January 1999 speech in Moscow, in which she announced funding for a memorial fellowship at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in honor of Galina Starovoitova. The Fellowship is funded and administered in cooperation with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and the Public Affairs office of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

In 1989, Galina Starovoitova was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute. She was also a visiting professor at Brown University, and a fellow in the Jennings Randolph fellowship pro-gram at the United States Institute for Peace, where she completed research on self-determi-nation movements in the former Soviet Union. In keeping with the legacies of both Woodrow Wilson and Galina Starovoitova, the Starovoitova Fellowship is available to prominent schol-ars or policymakers from the Russian Federation, who have successfully bridged the worlds of ideas and public affairs to advance human rights and conflict resolution.

recIPIents:

Sergei Baburkin March–August 2000

Emil Payin September 2000–June 2001

Aleksandr Nikitin September 2001–January 2002

William Smirnov October 2001–July 2002

Zaindi Choltaev September 2002–June 2003

Ivan Pavlov September–December 2003

Anatoly Krasikov December 2003–April 2004

Aleksandr Osipov April–July 2004

Davlat Khudonazarov October 2004–April 2005

Grigorii Pasko October 2004–April 2005

Valentin Gefter March–June 2005

Victor Shnirelman October 2005–April 2006

Olga Tsepilova April–June 2006

Maria Belousova June–August 2007

Dmitry Dubrovskiy August 2007–February 2008

Andrey Rezaev January 2008–July 2008

Petr Panov February 2008–April 2008


Munich, Germany. “American and Soviet Film of the 1930s and 1940s: A Study in Retrospective Mythologies.” April 2008.

ANGELINA VOLOVIK, Chair, English Language Department, Ryazan State University. “The Role of NGOs in Building a Civil Society: Comparative Analysis of Russia and the U.S.” September 2008-October 2008.

ERIKA WOLF, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. “The Author as Photographer: Soviet Writers and the Camera.” July 2008-August 2008.

central eurasIan short-terM Grants

OLGA DEMIDOVA, Professor, English Language Department, St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University. “Russian Émigré Writers Unions’ Collections in Moscow Repositories.” June 2008.

ALExANDER FEDOROV, Vice-Dean, Science and Research Department, Taganrog State Pedagogical Institute and Editor-in-Chief, Russian Pedagogical Journal Media Education. “Media Education in Russia and Ukraine: A Comparative Analysis.” June 2008.

RUSLAN GARIPOV, Chair, Department of State and Law Disciplines, Law Faculty, Tatar State Pedagogical University, Kazan, Russia. “Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Protection.” June 2008.

MARINA GOLOVIZNINA, Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Institute of Social Policy and Inclusive Education, A.S. Pushkin Leningrad State Regional University, St. Petersburg. “Juvenile Crime Control Policies and Specific Strategies of Juvenile Justice in Russia and in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan during 1998-2007.” June 2008.

OLExIY HARAN, Director, School for Policy Analysis, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. “Security Problems in the Caucasus: A View from Ukraine.” June 2008.

ALExANDRA LYSOVA, Associate Professor, Institute of Psychology and Social Sciences, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia. “Sociology and Society: Problems and Ways of Interaction.” June 2008.

ALExANDER SHAPIRO, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Family and Childhood, Russian Academy of Education, Moscow. “Economic and Political Influences on Psychological Problems of Russian Families Located in Russian Provincial Towns and in Ukraine.” June 2008.

I cannot have imagined a better post-doctoral year for my development as a scholar.

–leyla Keough, june 2008

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CenteRs FOR aDVanCeD stuDY and eDuCatIOn

In 1998, Carnegie Corporation of New York, with the support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, invited the Kennan Institute’s Blair A. Ruble and Nancy Popson, together with Susan Bronson, formerly of the Social Science

Research Council, to prepare a study about how best to protect the welfare of the intel-ligentsia of the former Soviet Union, especially in its regional universities. Their report in 1999, titled The Humanities and Social Sciences in the Former Soviet Union: An Assessment of Need, formed the basis for a partnership between Carnegie Corporation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute that led to the establishment of Russian Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs) in 2000.

Higher education in Russia has faced a number of problems in the post-Soviet period, but one of the most serious has been the absence of national and international networks uniting institutions and individual scholars. The goal of the CASE program is to develop an “invis-ible university” that would foster these networks in the social sciences and humanities. The program is administered jointly by the Kennan Institute and the ISE Center (Information. Scholarship. Education.) in Moscow, and directed by an international advisory board.

The CASE program recognizes that higher education, in the words of Carnegie Corporation President Vartan Gregorian, “is our connection with the future. It is in institutions of higher education where the best minds of every culture and country ask the questions that will lead to advances in social, scientific, and governmental policies, and the development of science and philosophy—the kinds of breakthroughs that will advance a nation.”

nIne theMatIc centers have been establIshed at reGIonal russIan unIversItIes:

FAR EASTERN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Vladivostok), “Russia and the Asia-Pacific Region: Comprehensive Security, Conflicts, and Cooperation in the 21st Century;”

IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY, “Siberia in Russia and in the World: Challenges to Development Strategies;”


KALININGRAD STATE UNIVERSITY (Baltic CASE), “Russia and Europe: Past, Present, Future;”

NOVGOROD STATE UNIVERSITY, “State, Society, and Individual in the Context of Russian Culture: the Dimension of Values;”

ROSTOV STATE UNIVERSITY, “Russia’s Modernization Problems;”

SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY, “Phenomenology of Power: State, Society, and Individual Destiny (Russian and International Experiences);”

TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY, “Eurasian Frontier: Inter-Cultural Community and Communication System;”

URALS STATE UNIVERSITY (Ekaterinburg), “Tolerance and the Integration of Societies under Globalization;”

VORONEZH STATE UNIVERSITY, “Dialogue and Continuity among Cultures in Contemporary Society.”

In addition, a CASE Resource Center was opened at St. Petersburg State University to support the research of CASE-affiliated scholars and St. Petersburg educational, cultural, and archival institutions.

Phase one of the CASE program focused on the selection of nine universities to host the Centers for Advanced Study and Education. The CASE Program Board selected these univer-sity sites from a large applicant pool collected during a series of three open, national competi-tions. The thematic goals and organizational structures of the CASEs were established and administrative details were finalized during this beginning phase of the project.

Once the structures were in place, the second phase of the program was initiated. Vibrant academic communities formed around each CASE as a result of the innovative, advanced research in the social sciences and humanities taking place at these Centers. The CASEs earned

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strong reputations as research centers at the forefront of Russian scholarship by attracting high-caliber scholars to be individual fellows and participants in CASE activities, hosting a variety of conferences and seminars, producing numerous publications, and establishing extensive open-access research libraries. An increase in academic mobility was achieved in Russia during this period and over 3,500 scholars from across the country have benefited from the CASE program, either through direct fellowships or through engagement in CASE activities.

Currently, the third stage of the project focuses on the development of advanced research projects, particularly those resulting from collaborative efforts involving multiple CASEs, aca-demic institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and international partners. This phase calls for integrating the CASEs into a fully standardized network which allows for more effective collaboration on network-wide research endeavors; extending their reach into the interna-tional academic community; offering intensive training on contemporary research methodolo-gies; emphasizing the development of high-quality applied research at CASEs with specific attention to issues affecting the regions in which they are located in order to attract the interest of local civil society institutions, the private sector, and the public sector; and enhancing the cooperation of CASEs with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, which has been encouraged to utilize the network of CASE universities in its program of higher education reforms. In addition to these goals, the CASEs are now also tasked with establishing the conditions within their host universities which will allow them to sustain their operations once Western funding for the program comes to an end.

Please visit www.iriss.ru, the official CASE program website administered by ISE Center, for more information.

Andrei Kortunov, co-chairmanISE Center (Information. Scholarship. Education.), Moscow, and New Eurasia Foundation

blair A. ruble, co-chairmanKennan Institute

deana ArsenianCarnegie Corporation of New York

Aleksandr chubarian, Board Member, Ex OfficioInstitute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

mark johnsonColorado College

robert legvoldColumbia University

mikhail strikhanovMinistry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

liudmilla VerbitskayaSt. Petersburg State University

tatiana zhdanovaJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Moscow Office

InternatIonal advIsory board for centers for advanced study and educatIon In russIa


case InItIatIves

The current phase of the CASE program calls for the development of advanced research projects, particularly those which involve collaboration among multiple CASEs, institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and academic partners abroad. Themes which serve as the focus of current CASE research include: “The Future of Russia and the 2007-2008 Elections: A View from the Regions, Capital Cities, and from across the Ocean;” “Russian Transformations within the Context of the World’s Development;” “Russia within the Pan-European Research and Educational Space—the Future of University Education: Challenges and Opportunities;” “Trans-boundary Migration and the Host Society: Mutual Adaptation Mechanisms and Practices;” and “Development of Russia’s Fuel and Power Sector: Social and Environmental Impacts and Prospects.”

CASEs interact with Russian scholars as well as with international academic communities in order to expand their network capabilities globally. Over the last program year, CASE schol-ars presented their research at three international conferences hosted by professional orga-nizations in the United States. At the 2007 conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in New Orleans, the CASE program sponsored two panels. At “Futures of Russian Politics: Views from the Regions,” experts discussed how the presidential elections influence the center-regional relationship through political, social, and economic factors. They emphasized that regional political influence should not be overlooked by outside observers. A second CASE panel at AAASS was entitled “Challenges of Urban Development in the Russian Federation.” Scholars at this presentation agreed that initiatives concerning infrastructure, migration, and strategic planning in Russia need to focus on new twenty-first century technology and investment.

The following spring, at the 2008 International Studies Association (ISA) conference in San Francisco, CASE scholars discussed international factors of developmental processes in Russia’s regions. They noted how historical and cultural relationships extend beyond the physical borders of Russia’s regions, pointing as an example to the Kaliningrad Oblast, which maintains countless international ties with European countries without direct interaction with Moscow. Such rela-tionships, CASE participants noted, lessen dependency on periphery-center structures.

In April 2008, CASE scholars presented research on two panels at the annual meeting for the Association for American Geographers (AAG) in Boston. On a panel examining migration, CASE scholars discussed borders enforced through legal and illegal patterns of movement. Additionally, at a panel titled “Russia and New Urban Life,” presenters addressed strategic planning goals for regional cities, and how to incorporate business leaders into governmental decision-making. As the scholars discovered, the topics discussed at these conferences extend beyond the national borders of Russia since international migration and urban growth in Russia offer lessons to globalized communities around the world.

Finally, in September 2008, a seminar entitled “Improving U.S.-Russian Relations through Cooperation in Higher Education and Research” was held at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The program was composed of two roundtable panels: “Humanities and Social Sciences,” and “Natural and Physical Sciences.” An overall theme emerged that cooperative academic efforts have had significant positive results in their respective countries, but that much remains to be improved in the Russian education system. The survival of the Russian education system in the new period of globalization was discussed, as well as the possibility that educational insti-tutions could emerge as a new agent of change in Russian society.



Monday, october 1, 2007/ noon discussion“anton Chekhov: the Role of author in

Russian society,” andrei Malaev-babel,

assistant Professor of theater, Florida

state university/asolo Conservatory.

tuesday, october 9, 2007/ noon discussion“Islam, Orthodoxy, and the state in

Crimea,” alexander bogomolov,

President, association of Middle east

studies, Kyiv, and former short-term

scholar, Kennan Institute.

Monday, october 15, 2007/ noon discussion“european Mediators and ukraine’s

Orange Revolution,” steven Pifer,

senior advisor, Russia and eurasia

Program, Center for strategic and

International studies, and former u.s.

ambassador to ukraine.

tuesday, october 16, 2007/ book discussioncosponsored by the cold war International history Project, woodrow wilson center; the Institute for european, russian and eurasian studies, george

washington university; and the national security Archive“a Failed empire: the soviet

union in the Cold War from stalin

to Gorbachev,” vladislav Zubok,

associate Professor of History, temple

university, former senior scholar,

Woodrow Wilson Center, and former

Research scholar, Kennan Institute;

thomas blanton, Director, national

security archive, George Washington

university; raymond Garthoff, former

u.s. ambassador to Bulgaria; timothy

naftali, Director, Richard nixon

Presidential Library and Museum.

MeetInGs

The Kennan Institute sponsors an extensive program of meetings that bring together experts from academia, government, business, and the media in a non-partisan forum. The majority of meetings are open to the public; speakers and audience members engage

in dialogue on a broad range of issues regarding Russia, Ukraine, and other states in the region.Weekly noon discussions allow scholars and experts to present their research findings to

a diverse and challenging audience. Seminars and colloquia provide opportunities for more lengthy discussions of new research, and policy forums provide an opportunity to demonstrate how research results funded by the Title VIII program can be applied to contemporary policy issues affecting U.S. relations with Russia and the surrounding states. Noon discussions and seminars are covered regularly by the Voice of America as well as by journalists from the print and television media, including C-SPAN TV.

In addition to noon discussions and seminars, the Institute organizes conferences and convenes small workshops to bring together leading experts to examine specialized topics in depth. Numerous informal discussions give scholars in the Woodrow Wilson Center com-munity ample opportunity to trade ideas and get to know one another, and often provide a Russian-language forum for visiting Russian scholars to discuss topics in the social sciences and humanities with resident scholars.

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MONASTERY, SOUTHWEST VIEW, LEFT:

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CATHEDRAL OF TRANSFIGURATION,

PRIADILNAIA TOWER & CHAPEL OF

SAINT PETER, RUSSIA (WILLIAM C.

BRUMFIELD)


Wednesday, october 17, 2007/ noon discussionKennan Institute u.s. Alumni seriescosponsored by east european studies, woodrow wilson center“estonia’s ‘Bronze night’ and the

Re-bordering of estonian-Russian

Relations,” robert j. Kaiser, Professor

of Geography, university of Wisconsin,

Madison, and former title VIII-supported

Research scholar, Kennan Institute.

thursday, october 18, 2007/ kathryn and shelby culloM davis aWards dinnermandarin oriental hotel, washington, d.c.

welcome and IntroductionGeorge f. russell, jr., Dinner

Co-Chairman

Introduction to the woodrow wilson centerlee h. hamilton, President and

Director, Woodrow Wilson Center

Introduction to the woodrow wilson Awardsblair a. ruble, Director, Kennan

Institute

Introduction to the woodrow wilson Award for corporate citizenshipGeorge f. russell, jr., Dinner

Co-Chairman

the woodrow wilson Award for corporate citizenshipPatricia cloherty, Chairman and Chief

executive Officer, Delta Private equity

Partners

Introduction to the woodrow wilson Award for Public servicerobert dudley, Dinner Co-Chairman

the woodrow wilson Award for Public serviceviktor f. vekselberg, Chairman of the

Board, RenOVa Group and united

Company RusaL, and Founder, “the

Link of times” and “Dobry Vek”

Foundations

closingPaul rodzianko, Dinner Vice Chairman.

Friday, october 19, 2007/ lecturecosponsored by east european studies and west european studies, woodrow wilson center“unresolved Conflicts and the

Organization for security and

Cooperation in europe: Prospects

for the Future,” Goran lennmarker,

President, OsCe Parliamentary

assembly; spencer oliver, secretary

General, OsCe Parliamentary assembly.

Friday, october 19, 2007/ seMinarPetrozavodsk, russian federation“asymmetries of the Republic of

Karelia: the specifics of a Double

Periphery,” emil Payin, Professor,

state university – Higher school of

economics, Moscow, Director, Center

for ethno-political and Regional

studies, and former Galina starovoitova

Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict

Resolution, Kennan Institute; oleg

reut, senior Lecturer, Department of

International Relations, Petrozavodsk

state university, and former short-term

scholar, Kennan Institute; Markku

Kangaspurro, Head of Research,

aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Center

for Russian and eastern european

studies; david dusseault, Coordinator,

Finnish Center for Russian and eastern

european studies.

Monday, october 22, 2007/ noon discussionKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“Privatization and Informalization in

Post-soviet Welfare states: the Politics

of Reform,” linda j. cook, Professor,

Department of Political science,

Brown university, and former title VIII-

supported short-term scholar, Kennan

Institute.

thursday, october 25, 2007/ FilM screeningcosponsored by the cold war International history Project and Dialogue, woodrow wilson center“the Collapse of the soviet union,”

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CENTER (MOSCOW-CITY), MOSCOW, RUSSIA



Igor Grazin, co-producer and scriptwrit-

er, Member of Parliament, estonia, and

former Public Policy scholar, Woodrow

Wilson Center. Discussant: thomas

blanton, Director, national security

archive.

Friday, october 26, 2007/ seMinarcosponsored by the eurasia foundation, usAId, and carnegie corporation of new york“the Caucasus since the Rose

Revolution: How applied Research

Measures Changes in Popular

attitudes,” hans Gutbrod, Regional

Director, Caucasus Research Resource

Center, eurasia Foundation.

Friday, october 26, 2007/ Meetinggolitsyno, russian federation“the socio-economic Life and Cultural

Landscapes of Moscow are Changing,”

Zhanna Zaionchkovskaya, Director,

the Migration Research Center,

Russian team Leader, Moscow; nikita

Mkrtchyan, senior Researcher, Institute

of economic Forecasting, Russian

academy of sciences, Moscow; olga

vendina, Lead Researcher, Institute

of Geography, Russian academy of

sciences, Moscow; vilya Gelbras,

Professor, Institute for the Countries

of asia and africa, Moscow state

university; tatyana Ivanova, senior

Researcher, Institute of economic

Forecasting, Russian academy of

sciences, Moscow; olena Malynovska,

senior Researcher, national Institute

for International security, ukrainian

team Leader, Kyiv; olena braichevska,

associate Professor, International slavic

university, Kyiv.

saturday-sunday, october 27-28, 2007/ theater PerForManceyaroslavl, russian federationcosponsored by the backlot theater, sarasota, fl and the Volkov state Academic drama theater“the Chekhov Project: My Mocking

Happiness,” andrei Malaev-babel,


state university/asolo Conservatory;

Margaret eginton, associate Professor

of theater, Florida state university/

asolo Conservatory.

Monday, october 29, 2007/ noon discussion“Jewish Documentary sources in

ukrainian archives and their study,”

efim Melamed, ukrainian Coordinator,

Project Judaica, Kyiv.

Monday-tuesday, october 29-30, 2007/ seMinarKharkiv, ukrainecosponsored by the european commission and International organization for migration“Migration and tolerance in ukraine”

Moderator: yaroslav Pylynskyi,

Director, Kennan Kyiv Project.

Participants: vil bakirov, Rector,

Kharkiv national university; valeriy

nikolayevskyi, Dean, Department of

sociology, Kharkiv national university;

oleksandr fisun, Director, national

Institute of strategic studies, Kharkiv

Regional Branch, associate Professor,

Department of Political science and

Philosophy, Kharkiv national university,

and former Regional exchange

scholar, Kennan Institute; andriy

artemenko, associate Professor,

Department of Philosophy and

Political science, Kharkiv national

university of International affairs;

olena bohdanova, Program Manager,

International Organization for Migration

Mission in ukraine; oleksandr tiaglo,

Chair, Department of Philosophy and

Political science, Kharkiv national

university of Internal affairs; volodymyr

anderson, associate Professor, Chair,

Laboratory of Regional studies and GIs,

Mechnykov Odesa national university;

olena alekseeva, Chair, Division

for Illegal Migration, Department

of Citizenship, Immigration, and

Registration of Individuals, Department

of Internal affairs, Kharkiv; shamla

tsargand, Consultant, Center for

Consultation of Migrants, “social

assistance service” Charitable

Foundation, Kharkiv; yulia dehtiareva,

assistant, Center for Consultation of

Migrants, “social assistance service”

Charitable Foundation, Kharkiv;

oleksandr Kyzylov, Chair, Department

of Methodology of sociological

Research, Kharkiv national university;

anzhela stashchak, Research Fellow,

Kharkiv national university of Internal

affairs; olga filippova, associate

Professor, Department of sociology,

Kharkiv national university; Mykhailo

beznosov, associate Professor,

Department of Political sociology,

Kharkiv national university; Maryna

nikishyna, associate Professor,

Department of Political science

and Philosophy, Kharkiv Regional

Institute, national academy of state

administration, Office of the President

of ukraine; oleksiy Kyriukhin, Chair,

executive Committee, Council of Heads

of Borders Regions of Belarus, Russian

Federation and ukraine, and scientific

supervisor, Center of transborder

Cooperation; Igor Iltio, assistant


aPPrecIatInG coMPlexIty: Kennan InstItute ProGraMMInG In the caucasus

The Caucasus became the center of international attention this past year as a result of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. This confrontation possessed ramifications far beyond its borders, as both the United States and the European Union reassessed their relations with each country and their broader strategic objectives in the region. The Kennan Institute’s ongoing commitment to probe behind the headlines provided the context for its programming on the Caucasus this year, with several speakers taking a long term view of both this summer’s crisis and the complex-ity of the Caucasus in general.

Despite this sudden burst of prominence, the Caucasus remains a mysterious and largely unknown region, especially in the United States. The 2007-08 Kennan Institute speaker series focused on exploring the Caucasus in all its diversity: political, ethnic, intellectual, religious, etc. Georgetown University professor Charles King explored the complexity of the Caucasus region in its entirety when discussing his new book The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. King noted that in many ways, the United States knew more about the Caucasus in the 19th century than it does today. King focused on the importance of the Soviet period in the history of the Caucasus, arguing that the Soviet experience took vague and ambigu-ous national identities and consolidated them into a coherent Soviet sense of what a nation should be. The Soviet Union’s focus on national distinctiveness eventually made this aware-ness the primary basis for identity in the region, placing it above religious or clan affiliations. King observed that during the late Soviet period, the historical process began to move toward reclaiming the ethno-demographic territory as various groups defined it. This process was con-ceptualized as undoing the demographic engineering of the Soviet Union, and more impor-tantly the Russian Empire before that.

Professor Alexander Knysh analyzed political and religious movements in the Northern Caucasus through the prism of the ongoing conflict between the two competing interpreta-tions of Islam in the area, Sufism and Salafism. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, non-indig-enous interpretations of Islam have begun to take root in the Northern Caucasus, including Salafism (commonly known as “Wahhabism”). Knysh shared his findings on the Sufi-Salafi divide, noting that the majority of opponents to Sufism belonged to the younger generation; they denounce it in part because they want to free themselves from the traditional structures of power, loyalty, and authority, which are exemplified by traditional Muslim scholars, who more often than not belong to a Sufi initiatic lineage. In Dagestan and Chechnya, for example, the egalitarian rhetoric of young Salafi leaders shows their desire to break away from the tradition-al structures of kinship and patronage, and to become citizens of a global Muslim community, unconstrained by a patriarchal system.

Chingiz Mammadov covered over 200 years of Azerbaijani intellectual history to assess Azeri national identity and the longstanding attempt by the country’s elite to reconcile moder-nity with tradition. Mammadov stated that, currently, Azeri identity is a combination of many factors. Generally, Azeris are of Turkic origin, and are culturally and geographically part of


the Muslim world, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and the Middle East. Azeris support the anti-terror coalition, rejecting extreme religious views. Finally, the identity of many Azeris has moved from an ethnically based identity to a state-based identity, which is based on the bor-ders of the Azerbaijan that gained independence in 1991.

Several speakers assessed recent developments in the region. According to John O’Loughlin, while violence appeared to be decreasing in Chechnya, the number of violent incidents con-tinued to rise in other parts of the Northern Caucasus, specifically in Ingushetia, Dagestan, and North Ossetia. Eliza Musaeva highlighted the deteriorating situation in Ingushetia, which currently is caught between the arbitrary repression of the government and the violent attacks of Islamic radical groups, with no end in sight. Finally, Anna Dolidze addressed political devel-opments in Georgia, focusing on the May 2008 parliamentary elections. Overall, Dolidze recommended that the international community refrain from concentrating primarily on the electoral process, and instead devote its attention to promoting practical reforms in Georgian institutions, such as the judiciary, electoral commissions, and media monitoring agencies. The aim of these reforms, according to Dolidze, would be to open those institutions to broader involvement from Georgian society, including the opposition.

As a specific response to the Russia-Georgia conflict, the Kennan Institute hosted Charles King and Michael Dobbs, reporter and former Moscow Bureau Chief, The Washington Post, at a Wilson Center on the Hill seminar, a new Wilson Center initiative intended to bring Center programming to Capitol Hill to help inform policymakers and their staff about major inter-national developments. At the event, King and Dobbs discussed the origins of the conflict and its potential implications for U.S. foreign policy. Dobbs described how Georgia’s unsuc-cessful conflicts with its autonomous provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia following the breakup of the Soviet Union led to the de facto independence of these provinces. This status quo, backed by Russia, existed until the August conflict, after which Russia recognized the independence of the regions. King attributed Russia’s hasty recognition of the self-proclaimed independence of these provinces from Georgia to the “Kosovo Precedent,” which had left itself open to broad interpretation. Dobbs concluded that the best way for the U.S. to respond to the conflict was through soft power as opposed to direct involvement, while both speakers agreed that this clash will greatly impede Georgia’s desire to join NATO.

In addition, the Kennan Institute’s Senior Associate Margaret Paxson has been conduct-ing long-term ethnographic research in a village in rural Kabardino-Balkaria, in Russia’s North Caucasus. Broadly regarding the problem of how society in the Caucasus navigates through periods of social turmoil and change, Paxson’s research includes questions as basic as how people spend their days in families and in work spaces, how they survive economi-cally, how they grapple with the meaning of religion in their immediate lives, and how they set their memories and their deepest senses of belonging—to family, to clan, to village, to region, to religion—in time and space.


Professor, uzhgorod national university,

and Research Fellow, Institute of

state administration and Regional

Development; yulian braichevskyi,

assistant Professor, Department of

Geography, taras shevchenko Kyiv

national university; Maryna Khaliman,

Research Fellow, national Institute of

strategic studies, Kharkiv Regional

Branch; viktor Pasisnychenko,

associate Professor, Department of

Political sociology, Kharkiv national

university; oleksiy Krysenko, associate

Professor, Department of Political

science, Kharkiv national university.

thursday, noveMber 1, 2007/ seMinarKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“Robust Revolution to Retiring

Revolution: the Life Cycle of the

soviet Revolution, 1945-1968,” amir

weiner, associate Professor of History

and Co-director, Center for european

studies, stanford university, and former

title VIII-supported Research scholar,

Kennan Institute.

thursday, noveMber 1, 2007/ theater PerForMancest. Petersburgcosponsored by the backlot theater, sarasota, fl“the Chekhov Project: My Mocking

Happiness,” andrei Malaev-babel,


state university/asolo Conservatory;

Margaret eginton, associate Professor

of theater, Florida state university/

asolo Conservatory.

Friday-sunday, noveMber 2-4/ aluMni conFerenceKyivcosponsored by the u.s. embassy in ukraine

noVember 2

Introduction:yaroslav Pylynskyi, Director, Kennan

Kyiv Project; Michelle logsdon,

Counselor for Public affairs, u.s.

embassy in ukraine; antonina Kolodii,

Professor, Chair, Lviv Regional Institute

of Public administration, national

academy of Public administration,

Office of the President of ukraine,

and Chair, Kennan Institute ukrainian

alumni advisory Council; Markian

dobczansky, editorial assistant,

Kennan Institute.

session I: Political discourseviktor stepanenko, Chair, Department

of History, theory, and Methodology

of sociology, national academy of

sciences of ukraine, Kyiv, and former

Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research

scholar; oleksandr fisun, associate


sciences, Kharkiv national university,

Director, Kharkiv Branch, Institute

of strategic studies, and former


scholar; antonina Kolodii, Professor,

Chair, Lviv Regional Institute of Public

administration, national academy

of Public administration, Office of

the President of ukraine, and former


scholar; Maryna shapovalenko,


Philosophy and Political science, Kharkiv

national university of Internal affairs.

session II: Political discourseolena lazorenko, Professor,

Independent Researcher, Kyiv, and

former Regional exchange scholar,

Kennan Institute; volodymyr fisanov,

Professor and Chair, Department of

International Information, Chernivtsi

national university; serhiy fedunyak,

Professor, Department of International

Relations, Chernivtsi national university.

session III: Political discourserustem ablyatifov, President, Institute

of Civic society, simferopol, and former

short-term scholar, Kennan Institute;

volodymyr salamatov, senior Research

Fellow, associate Professor, national

academy of Public administration,

Office of the President of ukraine;

olena yatsunska, associate Professor,

Department of social and Humanitarian

Disciplines, Mykolayiv national

shipbuilding university, and former

Regional exchange scholar, Kennan

Institute.

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noVember 3

session IV: the development of education and researchtetyana Myronenko, Chair,

Department of english Philology,

Mykolayiv state university; nataliya

slukhai, Professor, Institute of

Philology, Kyiv national university;

serhiy slukhai, associate Professor,

Department of economics,

Kyiv national university; alisa

tolstokorova, associate Professor,

Leader, academic expert Group,

International school of equal

Opportunities, Kyiv; Mariya rostotska,

Doctoral Fellow, Department of

Pedagogy, ternopil state Pedagogical

university; tamara denysova, senior

Research Fellow, Institute of Literature,

national academy of sciences of

ukraine; Kostyantyn Glomozda,


History, university of Kyiv-Mohyla

academy, and former Fulbright-

Kennan Institute Research scholar;

tetyana yakhontova, associate

Professor, Department of Philology,

Lviv national university.

session V: cultural relationsnataliya vysotska, Professor,

Department of World Literature, Kyiv

state Linguistic university, and former


Institute; serhiy Kurbatov, associate

Professor, Department of Philosophy,

national aviation university, Kyiv;

nataliya Musienko, senior Research

Fellow, Institute of Contemporary art,

academy of arts of ukraine; eduard

Martyniuk, associate Professor and

Chair, Research Center for Comparative

studies on Religion, Odesa national

university.

session VI: economic relationsoleksandr babanin, Research Fellow,

Center of International system Projects,

Kyiv, and former Regional exchange

scholar, Kennan Institute; olga nosova,

Professor and Chair, Department of

economic theory, Kharkiv national

university of Internal affairs, and former


Institute; Iryna novak, senior Research

Fellow, Institute of Demography and

social studies, national academy of

sciences of ukraine.

noVember 4

conference roundtable: “Prospects for u.s.-ukraine Relations:

Politics, economics, Culture, Research,

and education”

Moderator: viktor stepanenko, Chair,

Department of History, theory, and

Methodology of sociology, Institute

of sociology, national academy

of sciences of ukraine, and former

Fulbright-Kennan Research scholar,

Kennan Institute.

Monday, noveMber 5, 2007/ noon discussion“Russia and the united states in

eurasia: Conflict or Cooperation?”

nikolai Zlobin, Director of Russian

and asian Programs, World security

Institute, Washington, D.C.,

Co-Chairman, International Board,

Russia Profile, and former short-term


Wednesday, noveMber 7, 2007/ lectureschool of Advanced International studies, johns hopkins universitycosponsored by central Asia-caucasus Institute, sAIs, johns hopkins university“Cultural Geography of sufism,”

elyor Karimov, Chair, Department of

Medieval and ancient History, uzbek

academy of sciences, tashkent, and

short-term scholar, Kennan Institute.

thursday-saturday, noveMber 8-10, 2007/ conFerencemoscowcosponsored by the Institute of world history, russian Academy of sciences; and the u.s. embassy in russia

200 years of u.s.-russian relations

november 8

Plenary session:alexander fursenko, Minister of

education and science, Russian

Federation; yuriy osipov, academician

and President, Russian academy of

sciences; alexander chubaryan,

academician and Director, Institute

of World History, Russian academy

of sciences; blair a. ruble, Director,

Kennan Institute; Marc Pomar, Director,

International Research and exchanges

Board; william burns, u.s. ambassador

to Russian Federation; nikolay

bolkhovitinov, academician and Head,

Center for north american studies,

Institute of World History, Russian

academy of sciences


Plenary Panel: u.s.-russian relations: history and the Present dayalexander chubaryan, academician,

Director, Institute of World History,

Russian academy of sciences; richard

Pipes, Professor, Harvard university;

sergey rogov, Director, usa and

Canada Institute, Russian academy of

sciences; david nordlander, Library of

Congress; vladimir sogrin, Professor,

Moscow state Institute of International

Relations; robert legvold, Professor,

Columbia university.

session I: u.s.-russian/soviet diplomatic historydavid engerman, Professor, Brandeis

university; Konstantin Provalov,

Director of the History and Records

Department, Ministry of Foreign affairs;

vladimir Pleshkov, Director, Institute of

History, Russian academy of sciences,

st. Petersburg; Mariya troyanovskaya,

Moscow state university; andrey

Iserov, Moscow state university; larisa

troitskaya, Institute of World History,

Russian academy of sciences; victoria

Zhuravleva Russian state university

for the Humanities; richard Pipes,

Professor, Harvard university; larisa

baybakova, Professor, Moscow state

university; norman saul, Professor,

university of Kansas; sergey listikov,


academy of sciences; victor romanov,

Professor, tambov state university.

session II: history of the u.s. and the development of American–russian relations sergey Isayev, Institute of History,

Russian academy of sciences, st.

Petersburg; svetlana Korotkova,

state university – Higher school

of economics; Maria filimonova,

Russian state social university, Kursk;

Marina romanova, Far eastern state

university for Humanities; Ivan Kurilla,

Professor, Volgograd state university;

Maria sirotinskaya Institute of World

History, Russian academy of sciences;

tatyana alentyeva, Professor, Kursk

state university; william whisenhunt,

DuPage College, Illinois; Konstantin

Minyar-beloruchev, Moscow state

university; alexander okun, samara

state university; vladimir noskov,

Professor, st. Petersburg Institute of

History, Russian academy of sciences.

session III: history of russian AmericaKliment (German Kapalin),

Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsk;

M. bibikov, Professor, Rector, state

university for Humanities; Zacchaeus

wood, archimandrite, Church of st.

Catherine the Great Martyr in-the-

Fields, Moscow; leonid Kalinin,

archpriest, Church of st. Clement;

sergiy shirokov, Priest, Orthodox

Missionary Center, Moscow; anatoliy

Martynov, Professor, Kemerovo state

university; alexander Petrov, Institute

of World History, Russian academy

of sciences; vladimir sobolev,

Director, Russian state naval archive;

lyudmila spiridonova, Head of the

Information Provision Department,

Russian state naval archive; vladimir

tikhonov, Director, “taltsy” Museum,

Irkutsk; natalya Kargapolova, state

History Museum, Moscow; Ivan

savelyev, Pomor state university; yulia

yerykalova, Director, state History

and arts Museum, totma; Galina

chebykina, Veliky ustyug History and

archive Open air Museum; alexander

Zorin, Kursk state university.

special session of the conference at spaso house, u.s. Ambassadors’ residenceKeynote Address:henry Kissinger, former u.s. secretary

of state.

november 9

session I: u.s. – russian/soviet diplomatic history bertrand Patenaude, stanford

university; nayil usmanov, Birsk state

social and Pedagogical academy;

yuliya Khmelevskaya, Yuzhno-uralsk

state university; yevgeniya Ivanova,

Institute of World Literature, Russian

academy of sciences; Mikhail suprun,

Pomor state university, arkhangelsk;

vladimir Poznyakov Institute of World


victor Malkov, Institute of World


william shade, Professor emeritus,

Lehigh university; Mikhail Myagkov,


academy of sciences; vladimir

Pechatnov, Professor, Moscow state

Institute of International Relations;

david engerman, Professor, Brandeis

university; Ildar akhtamzyan,

Moscow state Institute of International

Relations; natalya yegorova, Institute

of World History, Russian academy of

sciences.

session II: history of the usA and the development of u.s.-russian relationsboris shpotov, Institute of World


olga Kazakova, Orel state university;

vladimir Kostornichenko, Professor,

Moscow Institute of International

economic Relations; vissarion


russIa and enerGy

Russia is the world’s largest producer and second largest exporter of oil. Russia also contains the world’s largest reserves of natural gas and Gazprom now ranks as the world’s fourth larg-est company in the 2008 FT Global 500 index. In addition to its own production, Russia dominates the transit of gas and oil from energy rich Central Asia. The rising price of energy, especially the record prices for oil in 2007–08, has helped make Russia into what many call an “energy superpower.” Russian energy, from production to transit, is an issue of global impor-tance, and one that Kennan Institute programming continues to cover.

Russia’s economic resurgence over the past decade is closely tied to its energy wealth, according to Marshall Goldman. Every year between 1992 and 2007, petroleum production and GDP in Russia have risen and fallen together, if by different amounts. In 2007 alone, energy exports constituted two-thirds of Russia’s export revenues. Russia’s dominant position as an energy supplier poses challenges to the European Union in particular—over 40 percent of German natural gas comes from Gazprom. Since gas is strategically more important than oil because of the difficulty in replacing supply, Goldman noted that Europeans are becoming wary of over-reliance on Russia for energy.

Andreas Andrianopoulos explored the issue of Russia’s energy diplomacy in Southeast Europe. He contended that Russian policy is focused on defeating pipelines that would bypass Russia in transporting Caspian oil or gas to Europe. While Europe has identified diversifying energy supply routes as an important goal, Russia has succeeded in negotiating bilateral agree-ments with some transit route nations and individual EU members that would undermine the economic rationale for competing pipelines such as the Nabucco project.

Further complicating the issue is the role played by non-transparent intermediary transit companies working with Gazprom to transport Russian and Central Asian gas to Europe, reported Margarita Balmaceda. In examining Lithuania and Ukraine, she found that these non-transparent entities serve both foreign and local rent-seeking interests through pric-ing mechanisms. They also enable Russian actors to obtain new potential sources of power throughout the CIS through the acquisition of companies and, in corrupt deals, the collec-tion of compromising information on public and private figures. These opaque deals imply limits to Gazprom’s assertions that disputes with neighbors are simply a result of “moving to market prices.”


Khvinteliani, Professor, Moscow

state Institute of electronics and

Mathematics; samuel volfson, student

, state university for Humanities;

Irina suponitskaya, Institute of

World History, Russian academy of

sciences; yury rogulev, Professor,

Moscow state university; alexander

Khodnev, Professor, Yaroslavl state

university; elena. Matveyeva,

student, university of Heidelberg;

elena tretyachenko, arzamas state

Pedagogical university; alexey feldt,

Dean, History Department, Pomor

state university; Irina Koryakova,

Mordva state university, saransk;

valeriy Konyshev, st. Petersburg state

university; b. shiryayev, Professor, st.

Petersburg state university; svetlana

belevtseva, Kursk state university;

oleg reut, Moscow state Institute of

International Relations; n. Markushina,

st. Petersburg state university; s.

shenin, Professor, saratov state

university; sherman w. Garnett, Dean,

James Madison College, Michigan

state university; norman a. Graham,

associate Dean, James Madison

College, Michigan state university.

session III: history of russian Americatimothy dilliplane, Professor, u.s.

naval academy; david McMahan,

state archaeologist, Office of History

and archaeology, alaska; alexander

dolitsky, alaska-siberia Research

Center, Juneau, alaska; a. yermolayev,

Kemerovo state university; v.

Khoroshikh, Rylsk aviation College,

Irkutsk; d. black, Researcher, Writer,

Kodiak, alaska; G. shevelev, for-

mer Counselor on Culture, Ministry

of Foreign affairs; a. Kristensen,

Professor, stockholm university; andrey

Grinev, Professor, st. Petersburg

university of Humanities and social

sciences; Moisey alperovich, Institute

of World History, Russian academy of

sciences; tatyana fedorova, Russian

state naval archive; Katherine arndt,

Rasmuson Library, university of alaska;

valeriy tishkov, Corresponding

Member, Russian academy of sciences,

Director of Institute of ethnography

and anthropology; aleksey Istomin,

Institute of ethnography and

anthropology; john Middleton,

sarah sweedler, Fort Ross Museum,

California; victoria Muesner, Professor,

university of alaska, Fairbanks; allan

engstrom, writer, united states;

v. Isayev, professor, writer, Russian

Federation; vladimir Kolychev,

President of Cultural and Historical

society “Russian america”; sergey

slobodin, Far east Department of the

Russian academy of sciences; lidiya

sevastianova, vladimir ruzheynikov,

Institute of economics and Business.

session IV: russian-American relation in higher educationModerators: sergey rogov, Director,

usa and Canada Institute, Russian

academy of sciences; larisa

yefremova, Ministry of science and

education, Russian Federation.

Presentations: vladimir daniushenkov,

anatoliy voronin, svetlana ter-

Minasova, nikita Pokrovskiy, Irina del

Genio, alexey timoshenko, sergei

verkhovets, Mikhail chernysh.

Moderators: Konstantin Khudoley,

Vice Rector, st. Petersburg state

university; edward roslof, Fulbright

Program in Russia.

Presentations: Irina sheina, Galina

Pshigusova, alexey falaleev,

dmitrii endovitskiy, vitaliy fedorov,

louisa bashmakova, yuri dus, olga

arshintseva.

Moderators: aleksey talonov, Deputy

Head, International Cooperation

Division, Federal agency for education;

roald sagdeyev, academician,

Professor, Maryland university.

Presentations: alexander Kubyshkin,

jeanna fomicheva, tatiana leonova,

viktor Mishin, alexey timoshenko,

denis fomin-nilov, Ivan tsvetkov,

anastasiya Konyakhina, Igor

tumentsev, evgeniy Pamyatnykh,

evgeniy chuprunov, evgeniy

Kodin, olga tserpitskaya, tatiana

samsonova, Irina alyoshina, ashot

Grigoryan.

session V: u.s.-russian cultural ties and the history of the usAeduard Ivanyan, Professor, Chief

editor of the Journal “usa–Canada:

economics, Politics, Culture,” usa and

Canada Institute, Russian academy

of sciences; Marina Kizima, Moscow

state Institute of International Relations;

Galina alekseyeva, Head of Research

Department, Lev tolstoy Museum in

Yasnaya Polyana; olga nesmelova,

Professor, Kazan state university; olga

Panova, Moscow state university; Irina

udler, Chelyabinsk state university;

tatyana Komarovskaya, Professor,

Belarus state Pedagogical university;

nataliya vysotskaya, Professor, Kyiv

national Linguistic university; olga

antsyferova, Professor, Ivanovo

state university; nikolay Kubanev,

Professor, arzamas Pedagogical

university; alexander vashchenko;


svetlana sigida, Moscow Conservatory;

nikolay Kurkov, Professor, Moscow

Regional Pedagogical university;

Marina Pereverzeva, Moscow state

Conservatory; Pavel tribunskiy,

Director, College of applied art,

Ryazan; yuriy luchinskiy, Kuban state

university; anna arustamova, Perm

state university; Irina chikalova,

Professor, Belarus state Pedagogical

university; svetlana orekhova-

tibbits, tibbits Foundation, united

states; Pavel balditsyn, Moscow state

university.

former Ambassadors’ roundtable: “russian-American relations: history and the Present day”aleksandr bessmertnykh, former

ambassador of the ussR to the united

states (1990–1991); james collins,

former u.s. ambassador to the Russian

Federation (1997–2001); yuri dubinin,

former ambassador of the ussR to

the united states (1986–1990); viktor

Komplektov, former ambassador

of the ussR to the united states

(1991–1992); vladimir lukin, former

ambassador of the Russian Federation

to the united states (1992–1994); jack

f. Matlock, jr. former u.s. ambassador

to the ussR (1987–1991); thomas

Pickering, former u.s. ambassador to

the Russian Federation (1993–1997); yuli

vorontsov, former ambassador of the

Russian Federation to the united states

(1994–1998).

november 10

research of junior russian scholars on Americav.a. shevchenko, graduate stu-

dent, Russian state university for the

Humanities; G.v. Mirzaian, graduate

student, usa and Canada Institute,

Russian academy of sciences; o.v.

Kolbasina, Ph.D., Kuban state

university; bruno Quadros e Quadros,

graduate student, Brazil; a.a. uliakin,

graduate student, Moscow state

Regional Pedagogical university; s.v.

Khomutinkin, Ph.D., tambov state

university; d.s. sekirinskiy, graduate

student, suHН; e.b. Kapustina, Ph.D.,

usa and Canada Institute, Russian

academy of sciences; M.v. lapenko,

Ph.D., saratov state university; M.

Peunova, graduate student, Higher

school of International studies, Geneva,

switzerland; M.v. Zolotukhina, Ph.D.,

Moscow state university of Design and

technology; o.e. danchevskaya, Ph.D.,

Moscow state Pedagogical university;

a.v. odegova, graduate student,

Moscow state university.

tuesday, noveMber 13, 2007/ noon discussion“In the Beginning there was the

Word: Glasnost at twenty,” leon

aron, Resident scholar and Director of

Russian studies, american enterprise

Institute.

thursday, noveMber 15, 2007/ seMinarcosponsored by the history and Public Policy Project, woodrow wilson center“the 2007 Ion Ratiu Democracy

Lecture: Democracy as a Challenge,”

anatoli Mikhailov, Rector, european

Humanities university, Vilnius, Lithuania,

and former Public Policy scholar,

Woodrow Wilson Center.

right: KUZMINKI ESTATE, EqUESTRIAN

COURT (KONNYI DVOR), MUSIC

PAVILION, EqUESTRIAN STATUES

BY PETER KLODT, MOSCOW, RUSSIA



new orleans–odesa: cItIes of eMPIre, dIversIty, and dIsaster

Citizens of both New Orleans and Odesa are known to laude the uniqueness of their cit-ies. However, it is unlikely that most residents of these two distinctive cities know how strikingly similar their communities are to one another. Both cities were born of empires of the 18th century—New Orleans from the French and Spanish Empires and Odesa from Imperial Russia. Both cities took advantage of their ports to become major centers of trade and commerce. This growth attracted people from far beyond the borders of their respective empires, creating ethnically varied societies from the cities’ earliest days. Such diversity in the two cities in turn created a fertile environment for the arts, particularly the visual and performing arts, up until the present day.

These correlations, among others, were noticed by the Kennan Institute. In early 2005, the Kennan Institute, in conjunction with Tulane University (New Orleans) and Odesa National University, proposed a conference to analyze the parallel histories of the two cities. However, in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and its sur-rounding region, thereby halting all conference planning. Nevertheless, once New Orleans began its recovery process, the American partners reexamined how to proceed with a New Orleans-Odesa project.

At the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), which was hosted in New Orleans, the Kennan Institute sponsored a panel titled “New Orleans–Odesa: Multicultural Centers that Care Never Quite Forgot.” Two discussants examined the shared ownership of Odesa through the lens of Ukrainian and Jewish per-spectives. Additionally, a scholar from New Orleans analyzed the process of mourning after the hurricane and the huge loss that it caused.

The dialogue about the similarities between New Orleans and Odesa extended into sev-eral Kennan Institute publications as well. The first publication, which was based upon the 2007 AAASS panel, was released as the Kennan Institute’s Occasional Paper #301: Place,


Identity, and Urban Culture: Odesa and New Orleans. Each article in the publication reflects the sense of ownership and identity characteristic of the two cities, and discusses the ques-tion of public space in the lives of diverse groups. Additionally, the Kennan Institute issued a special brochure examining the historical legacies of these two cities. In New Orleans-Odesa: Cities of Empire, Diversity and Disaster, the Kennan Institute focused on each city’s respective origins, economies, and citizens. The brochure provides special attention to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans.

Building upon the parallel histories of these cities, the Kennan Institute highlighted another prominent theme—struggle and recovery. Odesa’s experience following the col-lapse of the Soviet Union provides an array of “lessons learned” for New Orleans, one being the importance of nurturing artistic expression after an infrastructure collapses. Funding for the arts is usually the first thing to be cut when there are financial constraints in a community. Odesa’s artists were significantly impacted by the demise of Soviet sup-port for their cultural programming. Likewise, New Orleans faced the difficult challenge of supporting local artists following Hurricane Katrina. The Kennan Institute has tried to unite artistic communities in the U.S. and Ukraine to provide international assistance to artists in both cities.

In memory of the devastation that New Orleans endured from Hurricane Katrina, the National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra honored New Orleans at their annual City Day Celebration on September 2, 2008. A special exhibit sponsored by the Kennan Institute and the United States Embassy in Kyiv on the history of jazz was displayed at the Odesa Philharmonic Hall for the concertgoers to learn more about one of New Orleans’s accom-plishments. Special guests from New Orleans were present. The Kennan Institute hopes that this concert, which was a culmination of a year of projects, was only the beginning of a long relationship between the arts communities of the two effervescent cities.


Friday-saturday, noveMber 16-17, 2007/ seMinaruzhgorod, ukrainecosponsored by the european commission and the International organization for migration“Migration and tolerance in ukraine”

Moderator: yaroslav Pylynskyi,

Director, Kennan Kyiv Project.

Participants: Ivan chopei, Dean,

Department of Continuing eductaion,

uzhgorod national university; yuliy

haidash, Chair, Department of

International Relations, uzhgorod

national university; olena bohdanova,

Program Manager, International

Organization for Migration in ukraine;

andriy artemenko, associate

Professor, Department of Philosophy

and Political science, Kharkiv

national university of Internal affairs;

valeriy Peresekin, Director, Institute

of Continuing education, taras

shevchenko Kyiv national university;

yevhen yasinskyi, senior specialist,

Migration service in transcarpathian

Region; valeriy Petelskyi, Head,

Department of Foreigners and

administrative Procedure, Chop Border

Guard Detachment; Mykhailo Polyak,

Chief Physician, Regional Infectious

Diseases Hospital; volodymyr

Mykulanynets, senior specialist,

uzhgorod Customs; snizhana

byrkovych, specialist, uzhgorod

Customs; Igor Mykhailyshyn, Deputy

Head, Department on Citizenship,

Migration, and Registration of

Individuals, Department of Internal

affairs in transcarpathian Region;

lubov Kiyak, specialist, Department on

Citizenship, Migration, and Registration

of Individuals, Department of Internal

affairs in transcarpathian Region; Igor

Iltio, assistant Professor, uzhgorod

national university, Research Fellow,

Institute of state administration and

Regional Development; Myroslav

almashi, associate Professor,

Department of Constitutional Law

and Comparative Jurisprudence,

uzhgorod national university; yuriy

dziubanovskyi, Doctoral Fellow,

Department of Constitutional Law and

Comparative Jurisprudence, uzhgorod

national university; bohdan dykyi,

assistant Professor, Department

of Continuing, uzhgorod national

university; oleksandr Pelin, associate

Professor, Department of social

Work, uzhgorod national university;

Iryna almashi, associate Professor,

Department of Jurisprudence, a

Voloshyn transcarpathia Institute;

Inna savysh, Director, “Vesta”

transcarpathian Women’s nGO.

Monday, noveMber 19, 2007/ noon discussion“Russia and the West—What’s next?”

angela stent, Professor of Government

and Director, Center for eurasian,

Russian and east european studies,

Georgetown university.

Wednesday, noveMber 21, 2007/ starovoitova readingsst. Petersburgcosponsored by st. Petersburg state university“Crisis of electoral Democracy: Myth or

Reality”

Introductory Remarks: olga

starovoitova, President, Galina

starovoitova Museum, st. Petersburg.

Panel Discussion: aleksandr sungurov,

President, strategiia Humanitarian-

Politological Center, st. Petersburg

and former RseP scholar, Kennan

Institute; vladimir Gelman, Professor,

Faculty of Political sciences and

sociology, european university,

st. Petersburg; aleksei Krysenko,

assistant Professor, Politology Chair,

Kharkiv national university; Gurgen

boyadzhyan, Representative of

the Galina starovoitova Museum

Foundation, Yerevan, armenia;

Maria belousova, senior Researcher,

sociological Institute, Russian academy

of sciences, st. Petersburg, and former

Galina starovoitova Fellow on Human

Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan

Institute; olga tsepilova, senior

Researcher, sociology Institute, Russian

academy of sciences, st. Petersburg,

Deputy Chair, “Green Party” frac-

tion, Yabloko Party, and former Galina

starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights

and Conflict Resolution, Kennan

Institute.

Monday, noveMber 26, 2007/ noon discussion“Roots of Perestroika,” sidney Ploss,

former Historian, u.s. Department of

state.

thursday-Friday, noveMber 29-30, 2007/ conFerencecosponsored by the cold war International history Project, woodrow wilson center“stalinism Revisited: the establishment

of Communist Regimes in east Central

europe and the Dynamics of the soviet

Bloc”

november 29romanian embassy, washington dcWelcome Address: daniela Gitman,

Chargé d’affairs, embassy of Romania

to united states; horia-roman


Patapievici, President of the Romanian

Cultural Institute.

Keynote Lecture: Eastern Europe

between the USSR and the West:

Reflections on the Origins and

Dynamics of the Cold War

ambassador thomas simons jr.,

Davis Center for Russian and eurasian

studies, Harvard university.

Panel I: stalinism revisitedagnes heller, Hannah arendt Professor

of Philosophy and Political science,

new school university; alfred j.

rieber, Professor emeritus, university

of Pennsylvania and university Research

Professor at the Central european

university; virgil târau, associate

Professor, Babes-Bolyai university, and

the national Council for the study of

the securitate archives in Romania;

janos rainer, Director of the Institute

for the History of the 1956 Hungarian

Revolution, and Budapest university of

theatre and Film;

Discussant: charles Gati, Professor of

Russian and eurasian studies, school of

advanced International studies, Johns

Hopkins university.

Panel II: the cominform and the sovietization of east-central europeIvo banac, Bradford Durfee Professor of

History, Yale university; Mark Kramer,

Director of the Cold War studies Program

at Harvard university and a senior Fellow

of Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian

and eurasian studies; claudiu secasiu,

the national Council for the study of

the secret Police archives in Romania;

dorin dobrincu, senior Research Fellow

at “a.D. Xenopol” Institute for Historical

studies of the Romanian academy,

and General Director of the Romanian

national archives;

Discussant: vladimir tismaneanu,

Professor of Politics, and Director

of the Center for the study of Post-

Communist societies, Government and

Politics university of Maryland-College

Park, and Chairman of the Presidential

advisory Commission for the analysis

of the Communist Dictatorship in

Romania.

official reception with the occasion of the Anniversary of romania’s national day

november 30woodrow wilson International center for scholarsWelcome Address: lee hamilton,

Director of the Woodrow Wilson

International Center for scholars.

Keynote Lecture: Revolutionary

Breakthroughs and the Fate of Leninism

in East Central Europe

Kenneth jowitt, Hoover Institution

senior Fellow and Professor emeritus,

university of California, Berkeley.

Panel III: communist takeovers in east-central europe

session I:john connelly, associate Professor,

university of California Berkeley;

Bartlomiej and antoni Kaminski,

university of Maryland, College Park,

and Institute of social sciences, Polish

academy of sciences; ekaterina

nikova, senior Research associate,

Institute for Balkan studies at the

Bulgarian academy of sciences; dragos

Petrescu, associate Professor, Political

science Department, university of

Bucharest, and the national Council for

the study of the secret Police archives

in Romania;

Discussant: christian ostermann,

Director of Cold War International

History Project, Woodrow Wilson

Center.

session II: bradley abrams, associate Director,

Harriman Institute, Columbia university,

and President of the Czechoslovak

studies association; svetozar

stojanovic, Founder and President

of the serbian-american Center, and

Distinguished Research Fellow, Center

for International Inquiry, Buffalo, nY;

cristian vasile, Coordinator of the

Presidential advisory Commission

for the analysis of the Communist

Dictatorship in Romania, and

Researcher at the “nicolae Iorga”

History Institute of the Romanian

academy; bogdan Iacob, PhD candi-

date, Central european university.

Discussant: Charles King, Ion Ratiu

Professor of Romanian studies and

Professor of International affairs and

Government at Georgetown university.

Concluding Remarks: Diabolical

Pedagogy and the Logic of Stalinism in

East-Central Europe

vladimir tismaneanu, Professor of

Politics and Director, Center for the

study of Post-Communist societies,

Government and Politics university

of Maryland -College Park, and

Chairman of the Presidential advisory

Commission for the analysis of the

Communist Dictatorship in Romania.

Monday, deceMber 3, 2007/ noon discussion“the Resurgence of Islam in the

northern Caucasus through the

Prism of the sufi/salafi (‘Wahhabi’)


Confrontation,” alexander Knysh,

Professor of Islamic studies, university

of Michigan, and Fellow, Woodrow

Wilson Center.

tuesday, deceMber 4, 2007/ seMinarcosponsored by the Asia Program and middle east Program, woodrow wilson center“Central asia’s Golden age (800–1100):

Why it Happened, Why it ended,” s.

frederick starr, Chairman, Central

asia-Caucasus Institute and Research

Professor, school of advanced

International studies, Johns Hopkins

university, and founding secretary,

Kennan Institute.

thursday, deceMber 6, 2007/ Policy ForuMu.s. department of state“the Dynamics of Mass Mobilization

and networks in Central asia,” scott

radnitz, title VIII-supported Research


Friday-saturday, deceMber 7-8, 2007/ title viii-suPPorted research WorkshoP“International Development assistance

in the Post-soviet space”

Workshop Leader: ruth Mandel,

Lecturer, Department of anthropology,

university College London, and Member,

Kennan Institute advisory Council.

Participants: Melissa l. caldwell,

assistant Professor of anthropology,

university of California, santa Cruz;

Kelley e. cormier, Graduate Fellow,

Institute of Legal studies, university of

Wisconsin-Madison; brian Grodsky,

assistant Professor, Department of

Political science, university of Maryland,

Baltimore County; julie hemment,

assistant Professor, Department

of anthropology, university of

Massachusetts, amherst, and former

title VIII-supported short-term scholar,

Kennan Institute; armine Ishkanian,

Lecturer in social Policy, Center for Civil

society, Department of social Policy,

the London school of economics

and Political science; renata Kosc-

harmatiy, Program associate, Kennan

Institute; scott newton, Lecturer in

Law, school of Oriental and african

studies, university of London; noor

o’neill borbieva, Ph.D. candidate,

Department of anthropology, Harvard

university; william e. Pomeranz,

Deputy Director, Kennan Institute;

blake Puckett, acting Director,

International Programs, school of Law,

Indiana university, Bloomington; sean

roberts, Central asian affairs Post-

Doctoral Fellow, Center for eurasian,

Russian, and east european studies,

Georgetown university.

Monday, deceMber 10, 2007/ noon discussioncosponsored by the global energy Initiative, woodrow wilson center“understanding energy Dependency

in the former soviet World: Corruption,

Intermediary Companies, and energy

security in ukraine and Lithuania,”

Margarita balmaceda, associate

Professor, John C. Whitehead school of

Diplomacy and International Relations,

seton Hall university, and associate,

Davis Center for Russian and eurasian

studies, Harvard university.

Monday, deceMber 17, 2007/ noon discussioncosponsored by the global energy Initiative, woodrow wilson center“Russia’s energy Policy: a Role for the

Regions?” Martha brill olcott, senior

associate, Russian & eurasian Program,

Carnegie endowment for International

Peace.

Monday, January 7, 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by the united states commission on International religious freedom“the Putin Government’s Responses

to Increased Xenophobia,” aleksandr

verkhovsky, Director, sOVa Center,

Moscow.

thursday, January 10, 2008/ seMinar“Presentation of self in Russian Culture:

the Case of Vladimir Putin,” dmitri

n. shalin, Professor of sociology,

university of nevada, Las Vegas.

Monday, January 14, 2008/ noon discussion“Business and Politics in Russia beyond

the Headlines,” helen teplitskaia,

President, american-Russian Chamber

of Commerce and Industry, executive

Vice President, Imnex International,

Inc., and adjunct associate Professor,

Kellogg school of Management,

northwestern university.

tuesday, January 22, 2008/ noon discussion“Freedom and Restriction of speech

in the Context of Counter-terrorism

in Russia,” dmitry dubrovskiy,

executive Director, ethnic studies

Program, european university, Chair,


Department of Modern ethnography,

Russian Museum of ethnography, st.

Petersburg, and Galina starovoitova


Resolution, Kennan Institute.

tuesday, January 22, 2008/ brieFing“energy Relations with Russia: Fork

in the Road?” jan Kalicki, Counselor

for International strategy, Chevron

Corporation, and senior scholar,


thursday, January 24, 2008/ seMinarKennan Institute/harriman Institute contemporary ukrainian literature series“ukrainian Literature and ukrainian

Politics: Which One is More Dynamic?”

andrey Kurkov, author, Kyiv, ukraine.

Monday, January 28, 2008/ noon discussion“the Prophet of Post-Communism:

Vladimir nabokov and Russian Politics,”

nina l. Khrushcheva, associate

Professor, International affairs Program,

new school university, new York.

tuesday, January 29, 2008/ seMinar“Isadora Duncan: a Revolutionary

Dancer in Revolutionary Russia,” lori

belilove, artistic Director, Isadora

Duncan Dance Foundation, new York;

elena yushkova, senior Lecturer,

Vologda Branch of the Moscow

academy for Humanities, and Fulbright-

Kennan Institute Research scholar,

Kennan Institute.

Friday, February 1, 2008/ seMinarcosponsored by west european studies, woodrow wilson center“History’s Locomotives: the Intellectual

Legacy of Martin Malia,” terence

emmons, Professor emeritus of History,

stanford university; david Goldfrank,

Professor, Department of History,

Georgetown university; norman Pereira,

Professor emeritus of History and Russian

studies, Dalhousie university; hugh

ragsdale, independent scholar.

Monday, February 4, 2008/ noon discussion“the shanghai Cooperation

Organization and the West:

Confrontation or Cooperation in

eurasia?” akihiro Iwashita, Visiting

Fellow, the Brookings Institution, and

Professor, slavic Research Center,

Hokkaido university.

Monday, February 11, 2008/ noon discussion“systemic transformations and the Drift

toward Fascism in Russia,” alexander

j. Motyl, Professor of Political science,

Deputy Director, Division of Global

affairs, and Co-director, Central and

east european studies Program,

Rutgers university.

Monday, February 11, 2008/ director’s ForuM“Finland’s Foreign Policy: european

ambitions and Global Challenges,”

Ilkka Kanerva, Foreign Minister of

Finland, and OsCe Chairman-in-Office.

tuesday, February 19, 2008/ noon discussion“‘Make Me a Hip, Make Me a Hop:’

afro-american Music, african Migration,

and Class Identity in ukraine,” adriana

helbig, Visiting assistant Professor

of Musicology, university of Illinois,

urbana-Champaign.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008/ brieFing“Putin’s Campaign against Chechen

society,” usman baysaev, journalist

and Reagan-Fascell Fellow, national

endowment for Democracy.

Monday, February 25, 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by the global health Initiative, woodrow wilson center“up in smoke? the Politics and Health

Consequences of tobacco in today’s

Russia,” judyth twigg, associate

Professor of Government and Public

affairs, Virginia Commonwealth

university, and former title VIII-


Institute.

Monday, February 25, 2008/ seMinarmoscowcosponsored by the Andrei sakharov museum—social center“From ethnic to Political nation—Is

it Possible in Russia?” emil Payin,

Professor, state university—Higher

school of economics, and former



Institute; lev Gudkov, Director, Levada

Center, Moscow; boris dubin, Head,

Department of socio-political studies,

Levada Center, Moscow; vladimir

Malakhov, Lead Researcher, Institute

of Philosophy, Russian academy of

sciences, Moscow.


MIGratIon

Russia and Ukraine remain magnets for migrants who come to work or to study. Such mas-sive population movements are essential for the economic growth of both countries, but this influx of foreigners has been accompanied by more fundamental questions about the nature of each state and their ability to assimilate—either legally or illegally—large numbers of people. In the past year, the Kennan Institute broadened its research agenda to focus the attention of international specialists on Eurasian migration. This was done through a variety of program-ming initiatives.

Kennan Institute-supported research in Russia and Ukraine expanded to include additional cities so as to better understand the large regional differentiation in migration policies and expe-riences. The Kennan Kyiv Project carried out extensive surveys and interviewed focus groups of migrants in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa. The Kennan Kyiv Project also worked more closely with the Ukrainian media to disseminate its results on migration. This cooperation included a series of seminars at which Ukrainian journalists discussed the portrayal of migration in the main-stream media. Additionally, Kennan Kyiv Project staff members made several appearances in the Ukrainian media—both in print and on television—to discuss their findings.

The migration issue served as the focus of several conferences during the program year. In October 2007, Kennan Institute Ukrainian and Russian research teams met in Golitsyno, Russia to share their methods and findings and also to discuss future areas of collabora-tion. In April 2008, the Kennan Institute cosponsored a conference in St. Petersburg with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg State University, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the City of St. Petersburg, and UNICEF entitled “International Scientific-Practical Conference on Tolerance and Intolerance in Contemporary Society: East and West.” Representatives from the Washington, D.C. and Kyiv offices presented their research on migration and tolerance to an international gathering of specialists. The Kennan Institute and the Comparative Urban Studies Program cospon-sored a one-day conference in June 2008 on “Transnational Migration to New Regional Centers: Policy Challenges, Practice, and the Migrant Experience.” The conference brought together leading specialists from Africa, Europe, and Central and North America to discuss how new migrant communities are transforming cities around the world. Representatives of the Kennan Institute research teams shared their most recent research on Moscow and Kyiv as major migrant recipient centers.


In Washington, D.C., the Kennan Institute speaker series included several talks on migration and related topics such as tolerance. Aleksandr Verkhovsky discussed how Putin’s promotion of Russian nationalism resulted in the increase of hate crimes and other acts of violence against visiting workers and other foreigners. Adriana Helbig examined African migration to Ukraine by examining how hip-hop music has become localized in Ukrainian cities. Although African Ukrainian-language hip-hop groups continue to grow in popularity, Helbig stressed that Africans living in Ukraine still face major difficulties in gaining broader acceptance into Ukrainian soci-ety. Leyla Keough described how female migrants support their families by traveling to Turkey in order to work as domestics. While Keough largely focused on voluntary labor migration, Louise Shelley discussed how pervasive human trafficking remains in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Finally, Davlat Khudonazarov analyzed the continued influx of Tajik migrants into Russia. According to Khudonazarov, Russia continues to represent a natural destination for Tajiks for a number of reasons: no visas are required for Tajiks entering Russia, Russia is within close proximity of Tajikistan, most Tajiks presume a sort of familiarity with Russian language and culture, and Russia possesses a burgeoning labor market in need of workers.

In addition to the above public events, the Kennan Institute issued several notable publi-cations on migration. In September, 2008, the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press released Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia, edited by Cynthia J. Buckley and Blair A. Ruble, with Erin Trouth Hofmann. The Kennan Institute also published an Occasional Paper written by Sebastien Peyrouse, former Wilson Center Fellow, titled “The Russian Minority in Central Asia: Migration, Politics, and Language.” Additionally, Renata Kosc-Harmatiy and Mary Elizabeth Malinkin released some of the Kennan Institute’s findings on migration in a brochure titled “Moscow and Kyiv: Changing Cities and Migrant Magnets.” Finally, Kennan Kyiv Project Manager Yaroslav Pylynskyi wrote and edited two Ukrainian-language publications on issues of migration and tolerance: Mihratsiia I Tolerantnist v Ukraiini [Migration and Tolerance in Ukraine], and Aktualno: Tolerantnist! [Current Issue: Tolerance!].

The Kennan Institute will continue bringing scholars and policymakers together to discuss the growing impact of migration in Russia and Ukraine. As the past year of activities demonstrates, migration in Russia and Ukraine has significant implications not only for the two countries respec-tively, but for the wider surrounding region and ultimately for the increasingly globalized world.


tuesday, February 26, 2008/ seMinarKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“the Ghost of Freedom: Writing a

History of the Caucasus,” charles

King, Ion Ratiu Professor of Romanian

studies, Professor of International

affairs, Professor of Government,

and Faculty Chair, edmund a. Walsh

school of Foreign service, Georgetown



Institute.

Friday, February 29, 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by the middle east Program, woodrow wilson centerKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“Russian-Iranian Relations in the

ahmadinejad era,” Mark Katz,

Professor, Department of Public and

International affairs, George Mason



Institute.

Monday, March 3, 2008/ noon discussion“Is Russia entering the Post-Putin era?”

thomas Graham, senior Director,

Kissinger associates, and former

special assistant to the President and

senior Director for Russian affairs,

national security Council.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008/ seMinarKyivcosponsored by the fulbright Program in ukraine“Holodomor 1932–33: Policy and

Memory,” Ivan dziuba, academician,

national academy of science of

ukraine; stanislav Kulchytskyi,

Professor, Deputy Director, Institute of

History, national academy of sciences

of ukraine; vladyslav Grynevych,

senior Research Fellow, Institute of

Political and ethnonational studies,


ukraine; liudmyla Grynevych, senior

Research Fellow, Institute of History,


ukraine.

Monday, March 10, 2008/ noon discussion“the Geography of north Caucasian

Conflicts (1999–2007): analysis of 14,000

Violent Incidents,” john o’loughlin,

Professor of Geography and Faculty

Research associate, Institute of

Behavioral science, university of

Colorado.

thursday, March 13, 2008/ seMinarcosponsored by west european studies and the cold war International history Project, woodrow wilson center“Returned from Russia: nazi archival

Plunder in Western europe and

Recent Restitution Issues,” Patricia

K. Grimsted, associate, Harvard

ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard

university, and Honorary Fellow,

International Institute of social History,

amsterdam; Michael Kurtz, assistant

archivist for Records services, u.s.

national archives; robert wolfe,

senior archivist (retired), u.s. national

archives.

Monday, March 17, 2008/ noon discussion“the Current situation in the northern

Caucasus,” eliza Musaeva, consul-

tant, International Helsinki Federation,

Vienna, and sakharov Human Rights

Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and

eurasian studies, Harvard university.

Monday, March 24, 2008/ noon discussion“Gender, Migration, and Counter-

trafficking in Moldova,” leyla Keough,


Kennan Institute.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008/ seMinarmykolayiv, ukraine“the urban environment of ukraine:

Challenges of the 21st Century (the

Case of southern ukraine),” oleksandr

Pronkevych, Dean, Petro Mohyla

Mykolayiv state Humanities university;

oleksandr fisun, associate Professor,

Department of Philosophy and Political

science, Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv national

university, and former Fulbright-

Kennan Institute Research scholar;

volodymyr anderson, associate

Professor, Department of Geography, Ilya

Mechnikov Odesa national university,

and former Regional exchange scholar,

Kennan Institute; viktor chebotariov,

acting Head, Department for

nationalities, Mykolayiv Oblast state

administration; yuriy Kotliar, Chair,

Department of History, Petro Mohyla

Mykolayiv state Humanities university;

olga vassel, senior Research Fellow,

Museum of shipbuilding and Fleet;

tetiana Pron, Dean, Department of

Management and Business, national

university of Culture and arts, Mykolayiv

Branch; Maryna Kozyreva, associate


science, Mykolayiv state university;

volodymyr shchukin, associate

Professor, Department of Humanities,

Odesa national Legal academy,


Mykolayiv Center; evgen sinkevych,

Chair, southern Center, Institute of

ukrainian early text and source study,

national academy of sciences of ukraine;

olga Gaidai, Deputy Dean, Department

of Political science, Petro Mohyla

Mykolayiv state Humanities university.

Monday, March 31, 2008/ noon discussionKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“Human trafficking and smuggling

in Russia, the Fsu, and Beyond,”

louise shelley, Director, terrorism,

transnational Crime and Corruption

Center, and Professor, school of Public

Policy, George Mason university, and

former title VIII-supported Research


thursday, aPril 3, 2008/ seMinar“nation-building in azerbaijan.

traditions, Modernity, and Prospects

for the Future. Lessons Learned and

Potential Impact to the Region,”

chingiz Mammadov, Professor,

economic and Management school,

Khazar university, Program Manager,

Counterpart-International, and Fellow,


Monday, aPril 7, 2008/ noon discussion“the upcoming Parliamentary elections

in Georgia: Problems and Prospects,”

anna dolidze, albert Podell Global

Fellow at Risk, Hauser Global Law

school Program, new York university

school of Law.

Wednesday-Friday, aPril 9-11, 2008/ regional Policy syMPosiuMrose haven, mdcosponsored by International research and exchanges board (Irex)

frozen conflicts and unrecognized states in southeast europe and eurasia

April 9

opening dinnerMark Pomar, President, IReX; blair

a. ruble, Director, Kennan Institute;

william hill, former Head, OsCe

Mission to Moldova, and current faculty

member, national War College.

April 10

Introductionjoyce warner, Director, education

Program Division, IReX.

session I: Identity and Industrial change in a contested borderland: moldova and secessionist transnistriaPresenter: rebecca chamberlain-

creanga, Ph.D. candidate, Department

of anthropology, London school of

economics and Political science.

Discussion Leader: Paula Garb,

Co-Director and Co-Founder, Center

for Citizen Peacebuilding, university of

California, Irvine.

session II: how life goes on: A “nationally” representative household survey demystifies life in AbkhaziaPresenter: jesse driscoll, Ph.D. candi-

date, Department of Political science,

stanford university.

Discussion Leader: Paula Garb,

Co-Director and Co-Founder, Center

for Citizen Peacebuilding, university of

California, Irvine.

session III: citizens of convenience? russia’s Passportization of the Population of AbkhaziaPresenter: lyndon allin, J.D. candidate

and Global Law scholar, Georgetown

university.

Discussion Leader: carey cavanaugh,

Director, Patterson school of Diplomacy

and International Commerce, university

of Kentucky.

session IV: warming relations in georgia: the case for legitimizing trade between the government and separatistsPresenter: stacy closson, Post-Doctoral

Research Fellow, Center for security

studies, swiss Federal Institute for

technology.

Discussion Leader: carey cavanaugh,

Director, Patterson school of Diplomacy

and International Commerce, university

of Kentucky.

session V: thawing the frozen conflict? how regime change has Affected eurasia’s unrecognized statesPresenter: julie George, assistant


science, Queens College, City

university of new York.

Discussion Leader: stephen jones,

Professor of Russian and eurasian

studies, Mount Holyoke College.



session VI: Internally displaced Persons (IdPs) and frozen conflicts: human rights and Politics in AzerbaijanPresenter: Krista Goff, Ph.D. candidate,

Department of History, university of

Michigan.

Discussion Leader: charles King,

Ion Ratiu Chair of Romanian studies,


university.

April 11

session I: the republika srpska debate in bosnia and herzegovina: A Premonition of successful Power sharing or a blueprint for secession?Presenter: valery Perry, Deputy

Director, Department of education,

Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Organization for security and

Cooperation in europe.

Discussion Leader: valerie bunce,

Professor of International studies and

Government, Cornell university.

session II: seeking solutions in transnistria: looking beyond russia to the challenges of “undoing”Presenter: angela Kachuyevski,

assistant Director, International Peace

and Conflict Resolution Program,

arcadia university.

Discussion Leader: valerie bunce,

Professor of International studies and


session III: social Policy and reconstruction in Post-conflict KosovoPresenter: fred cocozzelli, Instructor,

Department of Government and

Politics, st. John’s university.

Discussion Leader: charles King,

Ion Ratiu Chair of Romanian studies,


university.

session IV: weak state Institutions in Kosovo: Perverse consequences of the International AdministrationPresenter: elton skendaj, Ph.D. can-

didate, Department of Comparative

Politics, Cornell university.

Discussion Leader: stephen jones,

Professor of Russian and eurasian

studies, Mount Holyoke College.

thursday, aPril 10, 2008/ seMinarKennan Institute/harriman Institute contemporary ukrainian literature series“Svitlo i Spovid: Light and Confession,”

taras chubai, author, Kyiv.

Friday, aPril 11, 2008/ seMinarVolgograd, russian federation“History and Regional Identities,”

victor shnirelman, senior Researcher,

Department for the study of ethnic

Conflicts, Institute of ethnology and

anthropology, Russian academy

of sciences, and former Galina

starovoitova Fellow for Human Rights

and Conflict Resolution, Kennan

Institute.

Monday, aPril 14, 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by east european studies, woodrow wilson center“History, Diversity, and state

Community-Building: Integrating

Collective Memories in Poland and

ukraine,” Magdalena dembinska,

Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for

Developing-area studies (CDas),

McGill university.

Monday, aPril 14, 2008/ Policy brieFingu.s. department of state“Frozen Conflicts and unrecognized

states in southeast europe and

eurasia,” Paula Garb, Co-Director

and Co-Founder, Center for Citizen

Peacebuilding, university of California,

Irvine; carey cavanaugh, Director,

Patterson school of Diplomacy and

International Commerce, university of

Kentucky; stephen jones, Professor of

Russian and eurasian studies, Mount

Holyoke College; charles King, Ion

Ratiu Chair of Romanian studies,


university; valerie bunce, Professor of

International studies and Government,

Cornell university.

thursday, aPril 17, 2008/ seMinar“Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law

in Russia,” jeffrey d. Kahn, assistant

Professor of Law, southern Methodist

university.

thursday, aPril 17, 2008/ exPert MeetingKharkiv, ukraine“urban environment and Migration on

the Post-soviet space,” vil bakirov,

Rector, Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv national

university; blair ruble, Director,

Kennan Institute; olga vendina,

Research Fellow, Center of Geopolitical

studies, Institute of Geography,

Russian academy of sciences; valeriy

nikolaevskyi, Dean, Department

of scoiology, Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv

national university; oleksandr Kyzylov,

Chair, Department of Methodology of

CHURCH OF SAINT PARASKEVA, CHERNIHIV,

UKRAINE (WILLIAM C. BRUMFIELD)


sociological Research, Vasyl Karazin

Kharkiv national university; oleksandr

fisun, Director, national Institute of

strategic studies, Kharkiv Regional

Branch, associate Professor, Department

of Political science and Philosophy,

Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv national university;

Galina levina, Project Manager, Kennan

Moscow Project.

Monday, aPril 21, 2008/ noon discussion“Russia’s Capitalist Revolution: Why

Market Reform succeeded and

Democracy Failed,” anders Åslund,

senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for

International economics and former

Research scholar, Kennan Institute.

Monday, aPril 21, 2008/ russian aluMni MeetingmoscowReception of the Kennan Institute

Russian alumni at the House of

Journalists

Wednesday, aPril 23 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by the east european studies Program“the Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad

Region: stalin’s Legacy within the

enlarged eu,” darius furmonavicius,

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department

of Languages and european studies,

university of Bradford and acting

Chairman, Lithuanian Research and

studies Fund, uK.

Monday, aPril 28, 2008/ noon discussion“Of spies and spokesman: My Life

as a Cold War Correspondent,”

nicholas daniloff, Professor, school of

Journalism, northeastern university.

Monday, aPril 28, 2008/ WorkshoPmoscowcosponsored by the gorbachev foundation “Fates of the Democratic Movement

in Russia - the Russian Intelligentsia:

Facing the Challenges of Our time,”

Introductory Remarks: Mikhail

Gorbachev, President, Gorbachev

Foundation, and former President of

the ussR.

Keynote Address: andrei ryabov,

editor-in-Chief, Journal “World economy

and International Relations”, Member

of the academic Council, Carnegie

Moscow Center; emil Payin, Professor,

state university – Higher school of

economics, former Galina starovoitova


Resolution, Kennan Institute.

Monday, May 5, 2008/ noon discussion“the Politics of Containment: Jews,

Residence Rights, and the Boundaries

of the Law in Imperial Russia,”

eugene avrutin, assistant Professor,

Department of History, university

of Illinois, urbana-Champaign, and


Kennan Institute.

tuesday, May 6, 2008/ seMinarKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“the everyday Life of the state: Russian

Officialdom from alexander III to Putin,”

eugene huskey, Professor, Department

of Political science and Director of

Russian studies, stetson university, and

former title VIII-supported short-term

scholar, Kennan Institute; don rowney,

Professor, Department of History,

and senior Research Fellow, social

Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling

Green state university.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008/ exPert Meeting odesa, ukraine“Promotion of tolerance: the

Role of nGOs in Forming Mutual

understanding between ukrainians and

Immigrants,” volodymyr anderson,

associate Professor, Chair, Laboratory of

Regional studies and GIs, Mechnykov

Odesa national university; andriy

artemenko, associate Professor,


science, Kharkiv national university

of Internal affairs; volodymyr boiko,

Director, Center for advanced training

of Civil servants, Chernigiv Oblast state

administration; Myroslav almashi,


Constitutional Law and Comparative

Jurisprudence, uzhgorod national

university.

Monday, May 12, 2008/ noon discussion“through Dark Days and White nights:

Four Decades Observing a Changing

Russia,” naomi f. collins, author;

james f. collins, senior associate and

Director, Russia and eurasia Program

and Diplomat in Residence, Carnegie

endowment for International Peace,

and former u.s. ambassador to the

Russian Federation.

thursday-Friday, May 15-16, 2008/ seMinarKyivcosponsored by the national university of Kyiv mohyla Academy“Political Culture: the Problems of

Conceptualization,” oleksandr

demianchuk, associate Professor,


Department of Political science, national

university of Kyiv Mohyla academy, and

Former Regional exchange scholar,

Kennan Institute; oleksiy haran,


science, Director, school of Political

analysis, national university of Kyiv

Mohyla academy, and Former Regional

exchange scholar, Kennan Institute;

Myroslava lendel, associate profes-

sor, Department of Political science,

uzhgorod national university, and

Former short-term scholar, Kennan

Institute; valentyn baginskyi, Research

Fellow, Department of social Philosophy,

Institute of Philosophy, national

academy of sciences of ukraine;

valeriy bortnikov, associate profes-

sor, Department of Political Institutes

and Processes, Volyn state university;

Mykola Genyk, associate Professor,

Department of Political science,

Carpathian national university; nataliya

latygina, Doctoral Fellow, Institute of

Political and ethnonational studies,

national academy of sciences of ukraine;

tetiana semygina, associate Professor,

Head, Master Program, national

university of Kyiv Mohyla academy;

oleksandr solomin, associate Professor,

Department of Political science, national

university of Kyiv Mohyla academy;

Margaryta chabanna, associate


science, national university of Kyiv

Mohyla academy.

Friday, May 16, 2008/ seMinaryaroslavl, russiacosponsored by the yaroslavl state Pedagogical university“specifics of Russian Modernization:

explanation endeavor”

emil Payin, Professor, state university–

Higher school of economics, former



Institute; andrei sokolov, Dean,

Department of History, Yaroslavl state

Pedagogical university, aleksandr

Khodnev, Head, Department of

General History, Yaroslavl state

Pedagogical university, former Kennan

Intitute Regional exchange scholar.

Monday, May 19, 2008/ noon discussion“Getting Powers Right versus

Getting Institutions Right: the tale of

Constitutional struggles in ukraine,”

Pavlo Kutuev, Professor of sociology,

Mykhailo Drahomanov national

Pedagogical university, Kyiv.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008/ seMinarcosponsored by the southeast europe Project, woodrow wilson center“Russian energy Diplomacy and the

southeast european Response,”

andreas andrianopoulos, southeast

europe Policy scholar and senior

advisor, Competition Project, Russian

Federation.

tuesday, May 27, 2008/ noon discussion“under three empires: the thorns and

Roses of a Life,” Izyaslav darakhovskiy,

Holocaust survivor, professor of eco-

nomics, soviet union, and author,

united states.

thursday, May 29, 2008/ seMinarKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“‘Race travelers’ and Black america’s

Romance with soviet Russia,” Maxim

Matusevich, assistant Professor of World

History, seton Hall university, sheila

Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, W. e. B.

Du Bois Institute for african and african

american Research, Harvard university,

and former title VIII-supported short-

term scholar, Kennan Institute.

Monday, June 2, 2008/ noon discussioncosponsored by the global energy Initiative, woodrow wilson center“Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the new

Russia,” Marshall Goldman, Kathryn

Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian

economics (emeritus), Wellesley

College, and senior scholar, Davis

Center, Harvard university.

tuesday, June 3, 2008/ inForMal seMinar“Russia’s Circassian Problem,” fatima

tlisova, Human Rights Fellow, Carr

Center for Human Rights Policy,

Kennedy school of Government,

Harvard university.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008/ conFerencecosponsored by the comparative urban studies Project, woodrow wilson center

transnational migration to new regional centers: Policy challenges, Practice, and the migrant experienceIntroductionblair a. ruble, Director, Kennan

Institute and Comparative urban

studies Project, Woodrow Wilson

Center.

session I: migrant Integration: Identity, citizenship, and tolerance


Chair: andrew selee, Director, Mexico

Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center.

Participants: Pep subiros, author and

Philosopher, Barcelona, spain; loren

landau, Director, Forced Migration

studies Programme, university of the

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, south

africa; j. walter tejada, Chairman,

arlington County Board; Manuel angel

castillo Garcia, Profesor-Investigador,

Centro de estudios Demograficos,

urbanos y ambientales (CeDua), el

Colegio de Mexico; Patricia landolt,

assistant Professor of sociology,

university of toronto; cynthia buckley,

associate Professor of sociology,

university of texas at austin; oxana

shevel, assistant Professor of Political

science, tufts university; davlat

Khudonazarov, senior Research Fellow,

Russian academy of sciences.

session II: ukraine and russia: new migration destinationsChair: blair a. ruble, Director, Kennan

Institute and Comparative urban studies

Project, Woodrow Wilson Center.

Participants: timothy heleniak, Faculty

Research assistant, Department of

Geography, university of Maryland;

yaroslav Pylynskyi, Director, Kennan

Kyiv Project, ukraine; olga vendina,

Geographer, Institute of Geography,

Russian academy of sciences, Moscow.

session III: new migrant cities: cultural transformation and new urban landscapesChair: blair a. ruble, Director, Kennan

Institute and Comparative urban studies

Project, Woodrow Wilson Center.

Participants: Mikhail alexseev,

assistant Professor of Political science,

san Diego state university; caroline

brettell, Interim Dean of Dedman

College and Professor of anthropology,

southern Methodist university;

Michael jones-correa, Professor of


thursday, June 5, 2008/ seMinar“tajik Migration in Russia:

Risks and Prospects,”

davlat Khudonazarov, senior Research

Fellow, Institute of Oriental studies,

Russian academy of sciences, and

former Galina starovoitova Fellow on

Human Rights and Conflict Resolution,

Kennan Institute.

Friday, June 6, 2008/ Policy ForuMu.s. department of state“Gender, Migration, and Counter-

trafficking in Moldova,” leyla Keough,


Kennan Institute.

LOG HUT (IZBA VREMIANKA), PART OF

ESENIN FARMSTEAD, KONSTANTINOVO,

RIAZAN OBLAST, RUSSIA (WILLIAM C.

BRUMFIELD)


Monday, June 9, 2008/ noon discussionKennan Institute u.s. Alumni series“the american Mission and the ‘evil

empire:’ the Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’

since 1881,” david s. foglesong,

associate Professor of History, Rutgers



Institute.

tuesday, June 10, 2008/ conFerencecosponsored by the International center for black sea studies; the center for transatlantic relations; the Austrian marshall Plan foundation; the Austrian Institute for International Affairs; and east european studies and the southeast europe Project, woodrow wilson center“trans-atlantic Perspectives on the

Wider Black sea Region,” andreas

andrianopoulos, southeast europe

Program Policy scholar, Woodrow

Wilson Center; daniel hamilton,

Johns Hopkins Center for transatlantic

Relations; tedo japaridze, alternate

Director General, International Center

for Black sea studies; charles King,

Georgetown university; stephen

larrabee, Rand; Ian lesser, German

Marshall Fund of the u.s.; Gerhard

Mangott, university of Innsbruck;

Panagiota Manoli, Director of studies

and Research, ICBss, athens; rasa

ostrauskaite, Council of the european

union, Brussels; alexandros Petersen,

Program Director, Caspian europe

Center, Brussels; john roberts, senior

energy expert, Platts, uK; fabrizio

tassinari, Center for european Policy

studies and Johns Hopkins Center for

transatlantic Relations.

tuesday, June 17, 2008/ conFerenceA director’s forum with his excellency sergei stanishev, Prime minister of bulgaria“transatlantic security that endures:

anchoring southeast europe and the

Black sea Region”

Wednesday, sePteMber 3, 2008/ exPert Meetingodesa, ukraine“From Ruins to Renaissance,”

hobart earle, Director and Principal

Conductor, Odesa Philharmonic

Orchestra; oleksandr sokol, Rector,

Odesa state Music academy; barbara

Mollere, Managing Director, Louisiana

Philharmonic Orchestra; walter harris,

Provost and Vice President for academic

affairs, Loyola university new Orleans;

Patricia herlihy, associate Professor

emerita, Brown university; blair ruble,

Director, Kennan Institute; volodymyr

dubovyk, associate Professor,

Department of International Relations,

Illia Mechnykov Odesa national

university; nataliya dyba, Director,

Window on america Resource Center.

thursday, sePteMber 4, 2008/ exPert Meetingodesa, ukraine“urban environment in the Post-soviet

Countries,” elena trubina, Professor

of Philosophy and Humanities, Faculty

of Philosophy, Department of social

Philosophy, urals state university;

natalia vlasova, Professor, Department

of Regional and Municipal economy,

Head, International Cooperation

Department, ural state university

of economics; Michael Grodzinsky,

Professor, Head, Department of

Physical Geography and Geo-ecology,

taras shevchenko Kyiv national

university; valeriy nikolaevskyi, Dean,

Department of sociology, Vasyl Karazin

Kharkiv national university; oleksandra

vistak, associate Professor, Department

of economic and social Geography,

Ivan Franko Lviv national university;

volodymyr anderson, associate

Professor, Department of economic

and social Geography, Illia Mechnykov

Odesa national university; blair ruble,

Director, Kennan Institute.

Friday-saturday, sePteMber 5-6, 2008/ aluMni conFerenceodesa, ukrainecosponsored by the u.s. embassy in ukraine

ukraine and russia: the Past and the future of mutual Influence

session I: Political transformations in ukraine and russiaantonina Kolodii, Chair, Department

of Political science and Philosophy,

Lviv Regional Institute of Public

administration, national academy

of Public administration, Office of

the President of ukraine; emil Payin,

Director, Center of ethnopolitical and

Regional studies, Moscow; viktor

stepanenko, Chair, Department of

History, theory and Methodology

of sociology, Institute of sociology,


ukraine, Kyiv; nataliya belitser,

Research Fellow, Pylyp Orlyk Institute

for Democracy, Kyiv; olena lazorenko,

Idependent Reseaercher, Kyiv;

oleksandr fisun, associate Professor,


science, Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv national

university.


session II: ukrainian-russian relations in geopolitical contextandriy Grytsenko, Chair, Department

of economic theory, Institute of

economy and Forecasting, national

academy of sciences of ukraine,

Kyiv; volodymyr fisanov, Professor,

Chair, Department of International

Information, Chernivtsi national

university; Kostiantyn Maleev,

Research Fellow, Institute of

Philosophy, national academy of

sciences of ukraine, Kyiv; andrey

Makarychev, Professor, Department

of Political science and International

Relations, nizhniy novgorod Linguistic

university; sergiy feduniak, Professor,

Department of International Relations,

Chernivtsi national university.

session III: economic, social and cultural Aspects of Interactionnataliya vysotska, Professor,

Department of theory and History

of World Literature, Kyiv national

Linguistic university; nataliya

Musienko, senior Research

Fellow, Institute of Contemporary

art, academy of arts of ukraine,

Kyiv; olena yatsunska, associate

Professor, Department of social

sciences and Humanities, national

university of shipbuilding, Mykolayiv;

viktor shnirelman, senior Research

Fellow, Institute of ethnology and

anthropology, Russian academy of

sciences, Moscow; olga nosova,

Professor, Kharkiv national university of

Internal affairs.

thursday, sePteMber 11, 2008/ seMinarcosponsored by the east european studies program“Russia and the West: Repercussions for

southeast europe and eurasia,”

alexandros Petersen, southeast

europe Policy scholar, Woodrow Wilson

Center, and adjunct Fellow, Russia and

eurasia Program, Center for strategic

and International studies.

Friday, sePteMber 12, 2008/ seMinarwilson center on the hill“the Russia-Georgia Conflict: What

Happened and Future Implications

for u.s. Foreign Policy,” charles King,

Ion Ratiu Chair of Romanian studies

and Professor, Georgetown university;

Michael dobbs, Columnist, The

Washington Post

thursday, sePteMber 18, 2008/ seMinarcenters for Advanced study and education seminar“Improving u.s.-Russian Relations

through Cooperation in Higher

education and Research,” joseph

conaty, Director, academic

Improvement and teacher Quality

Programs, u.s. Department of

education; robert huber, President,

national Council for eurasian and east

european Research; Mark johnson,


History , Colorado College; andrei

Kortunov, President, Information,

scholarship, education (Ise) Center;

joyce warner, Director of education

Programs, International Research and

exchanges Board; vladislav Zubok,

associate Professor, Department

of History, temple university; susie

baker, Research Leader, Global Ring

network for advanced applications

Development; cathleen campbell,

President and CeO, u.s. Civilian

Research and Development

Foundation; loren Graham, Professor

of the History of science, Massachusetts

Institute of technology; Glenn

schweitzer, Director, Office of eastern

europe and eurasia, national Research

Council; Gerson sher, President, united

states Industry Coalition.

Wednesday, sePteMber 24, 2008/ roundtable Moscowcosponsored by gorbachev foundation, All-russian social movement “union of social democrats,” national Investment council, g.V. Plekhanov foundation“Russian Middle Class today: Its

Potential and Prospects”

CATHEDRAL OF THE TRANSFIGURATION

OF THE SAVIOR, CHERNIHIV, UKRAINE



Introductory Remarks: Mikhail

Gorbachev, President, Gorbachev

Foundation, and former President of

the ussR.

Participants: Konstantin sonin,

Professor, Russian school of economics;

natalya tikhonova, Deputy Director,

Institute of sociology, Russian academy

of sciences; dmitry loginov, scientific

secretary, Institute of social and

economic studies of Population,

Russian academy of sciences; david

Konstantinovskiy, Head, Department

of sociological education, Institute

of sociology, Russian academy of

sciences; lev Gudkov, Director, Levada

Center; Mikhail afanasiev, Director on

strategic and analytical studies, Center

for Political Consulting “nikollo M;”

dmitry oreshkin, Leading Researcher,

Institute of Geography, Russian

academy of sciences; andrei ryabov,

editor-in-chief, “World economy and

International Relations,” Member of the

academic Council, Carnegie Moscow

Center.

Monday, sePteMber 29, 2008/ noon discussion“the Lost spy: an american in stalin’s

secret service,” andrew Meier,

Writer-in-Residence, the new school

university, and former Fellow, Woodrow

Wilson Center. CHORAL SYNAGOGUE, SAINT PETERSBURG,

RUSSIA (WILLAM C. BRUMFIELD)


the rule of law In russIa

The election of President Dmitrii Medvedev refocused attention to the issue of the rule of law in the Russian Federation. A lawyer by training, Medvedev has made the struggle against crime, corruption, and legal nihilism one of the rallying cries of his new administra-tion. Medvedev’s success will depend in large part on how he confronts the judicial legacy of the Putin regime and how he addresses post-Soviet Russia’s uneven process of legal reform to date. The Kennan Institute featured a number of programs that addressed the current sate of the rule of law in Russia.

Jeffrey Kahn focused on three “windows” of law under former President Putin in his assessment of recent legal reform in Russia: the Second Chechen War, Russian mem-bership in the Council of Europe, and the 2002 criminal procedure code. Kahn noted that Putin used the second Chechen crisis to recentralize executive power. Yet as Putin expanded his power, Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights proved to be a positive influence on the rule of law in Russia. Because the European Court examined Russian domestic law to ensure compliance with the European Convention for Human Rights, every judgment proved to be a recipe for further reform. Finally, Kahn stressed the importance of the new criminal procedure code, which shifted major powers from the procuracy to the judiciary while providing greater legal protections to defendants and witnesses. However, Kahn cautioned, at this time the significant reforms to the criminal procedure code reflect what is written as opposed to what is practiced on the ground.

The contrast between the theory and practice of Russian law was highlighted in several presentations. Dmitry Dubrovsky noted that while the Russian Constitution provides for freedom of speech, it also contains restrictions on propaganda or campaigning intended to incite social, racial, national, or religious hatred or strife. Dubrovsky cited several cases where officials used anti-extremism legislation to target public speech. For example, one individual was charged with extremism for writing an article critical of the Chechen war, while an inter-net newspaper was charged with insulting public authority by criticizing Russia’s increasingly nationalist foreign policy. By characterizing speech that it did not like as extremist, Dubrovsky argued, the Russian government under Putin was able to stifle political opposition and intimi-date mass media and small media alike.


While anti-extremism legislation has been interpreted over-broadly, Alexander Verkhovksy described how the existing hate-crime legislation in Russia remains largely under-utilized by authorities. Under Putin, law enforcement and the judiciary did little to combat xenophobia in Russia. In 2007, the number of sentences handed down in cases involving hate crimes was very low and, reversing previous trends, declined from the previous year. Verkhovsky explained that such cases receive low priority within the system and fewer crimes were being classified as hate crimes. He suggested that the main goal of the Russian government under Putin was not to arrest, but to co-opt nationalist movements, so there was a growing reluctance actively to enforce existing hate crime legislation.

Louise Shelly addressed the issues of crime and corruption in the context of analyzing human trafficking and smuggling in Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. The collapse of the Soviet Union created a steady supply of often educated individuals prepared to migrate to find work, whether as male labor migrants from Central Asia seeking work in the booming construction industry in Russia or female migrants seeking any opportunity to escape poverty or conflict zones. Shelley noted that Russia has over 12 million illegal migrants, placing it second in the world after the United States as a recipient of migrants. Because this migration lacks legal status, it has been dominated by criminal groups that find human traf-ficking more profitable than the drug trade. Trafficking depends on the weak rule of law and increases corruption in these societies.

The overall trends of Russia’s legal development were discussed by Deputy Director William Pomeranz at a conference sponsored by the Yeltsin Foundation on the 15th anniversary of the Russian Constitution. Pomeranz discussed both the strengths and weaknesses of the Russian Constitution, as well as attempts under the Constitution to reconnect with the positive ele-ments of Russia’s pre-revolutionary legal history. Pomeranz further highlighted the role of the Russian Constitutional Court in developing Russia’s evolving body of constitutional law, which has no precedent in Russian history. Yet as Pomeranz noted, the threat of counter-reform remains real in Russia, especially as the country embarks on a high-risk experiment of dual power that may fatally blur the lines of authority set forth under the Constitution between the president and the prime minister. The great challenge of the 21st century, Pomeranz conclud-ed, was to somehow place the Russian state under the Constitution, as opposed to outside it.



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Douglas W. Blum, ed. Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security, and Society in an Era of Change. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

William Brumfield, Kargopol: Arkhitekturnoe nasledie v fotografiakh [Kargopol: Architectural Heritage in Photographs]. Moscow: “Tri Kvadrata” Publishers, 2007.

William Brumfield, Chita: Arkhitekturnoe nasledie v fotografiakh [Chita: Architectural Heritage in Photographs]. Moscow: “Tri Kvadrata” Publishers, 2008.

Cynthia J. Buckley and Blair A. Ruble, eds., with Erin Trouth Hofmann, Migration, Homeland, and Belonging in Eurasia. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Alexander Chubarian and Blair A. Ruble, eds. 200 let rossiisko-ameri-kanskikh otnoshenii: nauka i obrazo-vanie [200 Years of Russian-American Relations: Science and Education]. Moscow: Olma Media Group, 2007.

Marlene Laruelle, Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Yaroslav Pylynskyi, Mihratsiia i Tolerantnist v Ukraiini [Migration and Tolerance in Ukraine]. Kyiv: Stylos Press, 2007.

Yaroslav Pylynskyi, ed. Aktualno: Tolerantnist! [Current Issue: Tolerance!]. Kyiv: Stylos Press, 2008.

Emil Payin and Olga Volkogonova, eds. Rossiiskaia modernizatsiia: razmy-shliaia o samobytnosti [Reflections on Russian Modernization]. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata Publishers, 2008.

Yaacov Ro’i and Boris Morozov, eds. The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.

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occasIonal PaPers

#297. The Russian Minority in Central Asia: Migration, Politics, and Language. Sebastien Peyrouse (2008).

#298. Religion in Russian Society: State Policy, Regional Challenges, and Individual Rights. Conference Proceedings. Edited by F. Joseph Dresen (2008).

#299. The Fifteenth Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union: Recollections and Perspectives. Conference Proceedings. Edited by Markian Dobczansky (2008).

#300. Reflections on George F. Kennan: Scholar and Policymaker. Conference Proceedings. Edited by F. Joseph Dresen (2008).

#301. Place, Identity, and Urban Culture: Odesa and New Orleans. Edited by Samuel C. Ramer and Blair A. Ruble (2008).

Vol. XXV No. 1 2007Sharyl Cross, Professor of National Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany, and Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute. “U.S./NATO-Russia and Countering Ideological Support for Terrorism: Toward Building a Comprehensive Strategy.” (19 June 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 2 2007Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation.“A Tragic Feud: Alienation between the Russian State and the Liberal Intelligentsia, Past and Present.” (4 June 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 3 2007Steven Pifer, Senior Advisor, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.“European Mediators and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.” (15 October 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 4 2007Andrei Malaev-Babel, Assistant Professor of Theater, Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory.“Anton Chekhov: The Role of Author in Russian Society.” (1 October 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 5 2008Amir Weiner, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director, Center for European Studies, Stanford University, and former Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.“Robust Revolution to Retiring Revolution: The Life Cycle of the

Soviet Revolution, 1945-1968.” (1 November 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 6 2008Linda J. Cook, Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.“Privatization and Informalization in Post-Soviet Welfare States: The Politics of Reform.” (22 October 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 7 2008Angela Stent, Professor of Government and Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University.“Russia and the West—What’s Next?” (19 November 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 8 2008Leon Aron, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies, American Enterprise Institute.“In the Beginning There was the Word: Glasnost at Twenty.” (13 November 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 9 2008Aleksandr Verkhovsky, Director, SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, Moscow.“The Putin Government’s Response to Increased Xenophobia.” (7 January 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 10 2008Alexander Knysh, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Michigan, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center.“The Resurgence of Islam in the Northern Caucasus through the Prism of the Sufi/Salafi (‘Wahhabi’)

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Confrontation.” (3 December 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 11 2008Margarita Balmaceda, Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.“Understanding Energy Dependency in the former Soviet World: Corruption, Intermediary Companies, and Energy Security in Ukraine and Lithuania.” (10 December 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 12 2008S. Frederick Starr, Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Research Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Founding Secretary, Kennan Institute.“Central Asia’s Golden Age (800–1100): Why it Happened, Why it Ended.” (4 December 2007).

Vol. XXV No. 13 2008Thomas Graham, Senior Director, Kissinger Associates, and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs, National Security Council.“Is Russia Entering the Post-Putin Era?” (3 March 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 14 2008Judyth Twigg, Associate Professor of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.“Up in Smoke? The Politics and Health Consequences of Tobacco in Today’s Russia.” (24 February 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 15 2008Charles King, Ion Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies, Professor of International Affairs, Professor of Government, and Faculty Chair, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.“The Ghost of Freedom: Writing a History of the Caucasus.” (26 February 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 16 2008Adriana Helbig, Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.“‘Make Me a Hip, Make Me a Hop:’ Afro-American Music, African Migration, and Class Identity in Ukraine.” (19 February 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 17 2008Jeffrey D. Kahn, Assistant Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University.“Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law in Russia.” (17 April 2008).

Vol. XXV No. 18 2008Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and former Research Scholar, Kennan Institute.“Russia’s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed.” (21 April 2008).

Vol. XXVI No. 1 2008Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor Emeritus of Russian Economics, Wellesley College, and Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University.“Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia.” (2 June 2008).

Vol. XXVI No. 2 2008David S. Foglesong, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University, and former Title VIII-Supported Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute.“The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire:’ The Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’ since 1881.” (9 June 2008).


conteMPorary uKraInIan lIterature serIes

Observing Ukraine through its literary landscape offers an opportunity to understand much of the transformation that has occurred in the past seventeen years of Ukrainian statehood. In 2008 the Kennan Institute, in collaboration with the Harriman Institute’s Ukrainian Studies Program at Columbia University, launched a series on contemporary Ukrainian literature, inviting two prominent Ukrainian authors who, in combination, reflect Ukraine’s present-day literary, cultural, political and linguistic diversity.

What readers assumed for years to be scarcity in the Ukrainian literature market has in fact turned out to be a wealthy representation of language, region, gender, and genre. If in the years immediately following Ukraine’s independence one was hard-pressed to find any new Ukrainian publications in book stores, today one may find auditoriums overflowing with students for authors’ readings. These writers address the lingering vestiges of Ukraine’s Soviet past while simultaneously providing an image of Ukraine to a new generation of readers that has no personal memory of the Soviet Union.

The Kennan-Harriman Institute literature series first hosted Andrey Kurkov, an author as popular in Europe as in Ukraine. The ethnically Russian and Leningrad-born Kurkov identi-fies himself as politically Ukrainian and closely associates himself to his now-native city of Kyiv. His detective novels, which have been translated into many languages, offer a glimpse into the absurd, ironic and often conflicting existence experienced by those living in Ukraine. At the Kennan Institute, Kurkov read from his most recent best-selling novel, The President’s Last Love, which was published six months before Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. Representing political elites no less timidly or ironically than Nikolai Gogol, Kurkov’s novel includes a romantic president of Ukraine who is oddly poisoned and whose face is disfigured by freckles, as well as a Russian president who refuses to relinquish his title and ultimately becomes presi-dent for life.

Taras Chubai, originally from Lviv, and currently a resident of Kyiv, also presented his work in the series. Chubai’s captivating presentation combined music and poetry. Accompanied by his acoustic guitar, Chubai shared with the audience poetry of his father, Hryhoriy Chubai, a dissident poet who died at an early age under uncertain circumstances. Afterwards, the bard sang the poetry of Ukraine’s most popular contemporary authors, addressing a myriad of issues including identity, love, insanity, survival, and more—all of which provide inspiration for Chubai’s musical genius. Chubai’s commentary, as well as the social canvass portrayed by his selection of poetry, expressed an ambivalence to politics that is broadly reflected in Ukrainian society as a whole, a readiness for civic activism tempered by a growing political fatigue.

Both authors provided their audience with a new perspective on Ukrainian literary life. The success of this series ensured that it will be continued into the next programming year.


Renata Kosc-Harmatiy and Mary Elizabeth Malinkin. Moscow and Kyiv: Changing Cities and Migrant Magnets. 2008.

Megan A. Yasenchak. New Orleans and Odesa: Cities of Empire, Diversity, and Disaster. 2008.

Kennan Moscow Project PublIcatIons

Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossii [Herald of the Kennan Institute in Russia], Volume 12, Fall 2007.

Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossii [Herald of the Kennan Institute in Russia], Volume 13, Spring 2008.

Kennan KyIv Project PublIcatIons

Ahora [Agora], Volume 6, Spring 2008.

Ahora [Agora], Volume 7, Summer 2008.

Igor Grazin and Thomas Blanton, Dialogue Television #1609, “End Game: The Collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Anatoli Mikhailov, Dialogue Television #1610, “Democracy: Belarus and the Accidental Activist.”

Andrey Kurkov, Dialogue Television #1706, “The President’s Last Love.”

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Igor Grazin and Thomas Blanton, Dialogue Radio #835, “End Game: The Collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Anatoli Mikhailov, Dialogue Radio #836, “Democracy: Belarus and the Accidental Activist.”

Andrey Kurkov, Dialogue Radio #843, “The President’s Last Love.”

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200th annIversary of u.s.-russIan relatIons

On November 8-10, 2007, the Kennan Institute, along with the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Embassy in Russia, cosponsored a conference in Moscow examining the two-century long relationship between the United States and Russia. The conference convened scholars and policymakers from both nations and beyond, including former ambassadors from both countries.

The 200th anniversary of the establishment of Russian-American diplomatic relations served as an appropriate moment to contemplate the complex relationship between two of the world’s largest and most important states. Officially, the relationship began in the very different world of 1807 with the signing of documents establishing relations, although ambas-sadors were not exchanged until 1809. Since that time, relations between the United States and Russia have alternated between alliance and mutual aid on the one hand, and suspicion and hostility on the other.

Papers presented at the conference included such topics as a comparison of American slav-ery and Russian serfdom in the nineteenth century; comparisons of Russia and the United States as continental expansionist powers; the rapid industrialization and emergence of mass culture in both countries, albeit under different systems; the move from wartime allies to post-war adversaries during the Cold War; and the struggle for understanding identity in both societies during the post-Cold War period.

In delivering the keynote address, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger noted that the first Russian he met was a Soviet soldier along the Elbe at the end of World War II. He related how the Soviet “Cossack Brigade” soldiers got the best end of bargaining over clothes and drink—and ever since, he has always remembered that Russians are hard bargainers. After the war, the Soviets and Americans quickly had to learn how to deal with one another, even if within the framework of a Cold War. A great deal of learning took place along the way and, in the end, the United States and USSR did a good job of managing to avoid catastrophe. In the modern world, he stressed, we need to relearn how to deal with one another. This can only happen through reinforcing positive experiences, as was the practice during the Cold War.


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ukrainian studies Program, Harriman

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united states Commission on

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united states Department of state

united states embassy in Russia

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Volkov state academic Drama theater

West european studies, Woodrow

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Yaroslavl state Pedagogical university

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american International Group, Inc.

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Foundation

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Constance Kennan Bradt)

anthony anemone and Vivian K. Pyle

Dwayne O. andreas

Carol Lee anschuetz

Mary e. applegate

archer Daniels Midland Company

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understandInG the leGacy of vladIMIr PutIn

On May 7, 2008, Dmitrii Medvedev was inaugurated as the new president of Russia. Vladimir Putin, his predecessor, in turn became Russia’s prime minister, as the Russian constitution lim-ited the president to two successive terms in office. During his administration, Putin presided over what most Russians consider a period of national renewal and reemergence on the inter-national stage as a major power. Over the course of the 2007-08 program year, the Kennan Institute featured speakers that sought to understand and explain Putin and his legacy.

When Putin became president in 2000, Russia was just beginning to recover from financial collapse in 1998 and an economic decline of 40 percent of GDP during the 1990s. During his two terms as president, Russia’s economy enjoyed growth rates of 7 to 8 percent, its GDP nearly doubled, its currency appreciated in value by 20 percent, and its largest corporation, Gazprom, became the fourth largest corporation in the world, according to the Financial Times. Since the 1998 financial collapse, Russia has amassed the third largest foreign currency reserves in the world. “It is understandable why the Russian people regard Vladimir Putin as their savior,” said Marshal Goldman.

While in office, President Putin’s popularity never dipped below 60 percent. Alexander Motyl contended that Putin’s popularity was based on the widespread perception among Russians that Putin was responsible for Russia’s national renewal from “the humiliation in the 1990s associated in many Russian minds with corrupt and weak democrats.” In addition to presiding over economic growth, Putin initiated a popular military campaign against Chechen separatists, centralized executive power, and grew increasingly assertive in international rela-tions. Most of all, he is credited in Russia with restoring “stability.”

Putin has paid close attention to controlling his public image. A carefully tailored introduc-tory autobiography, published in 2000, played an important role in crafting Putin’s public image for domestic and international consumption, according Dmitri Shalin. Once in office, Putin moved quickly to wrest control over national media by transferring it into the hands of the state or state owned enterprises. In his second term, the Putin administration enacted a number of legal restrictions on free speech on the pretext of national security and combating extremism. Dmitri Dubrovskiy noted that the Russian government tends to define speech that it does not like as “extremist.”

Did Putin achieve stability in Russia by rolling back democracy in favor of authoritarian rule? Thomas Graham contended that Putin rebuilt the structure of power along traditional


Russian lines: highly centralized and personalized, based on a narrow group of elites from competing factions, and with the President serving as the final arbiter of elite competition. In the economic realm, Goldman described how Putin’s policy of building “national champions” resulted in the renationalization of energy assets, including Russia’s largest oil company at the time, YUKOS. Jeffrey Kahn observed that Putin’s popular campaign in Chechnya against ter-rorism more broadly introduced a “certain callousness toward law…as everything was covered in the sticky patina of fighting terrorism.” Alexander Verkhovsky expressed concern that the Russian government under Putin’s administration sought to co-opt nationalist groups and individuals, thereby signaling acceptance of xenophobia against foreign workers and migrants. These developments, and others, led Alexander Motyl to question whether Russia under Putin was in a “transition in the direction of fascism.”

And yet, Graham observed, Putin could easily have had the Russian constitution amended to allow him to run for additional consecutive terms in office, but did not. While Putin remains a force on Russia’s political scene as prime minister, the transfer of power to Dmitrii Medvedev marked the first time in Russian history that a Russian head of state at the height of his power and popularity voluntarily relinquished office through a national election. And if Russia does not currently have enough “law with a capital L,” contended Kahn, its membership in the European Court of Human Rights and the cor-responding reforms of its criminal justice system enacted by Putin are gradually advancing the rule of law in Russia. Older generations who resist these reforms are being displaced by a new cadre of younger professionals.

If Putin presided over Russia’s restoration as a world power, many more challenges remain. To modernize, Russia will have to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure renewal, rebuild its public education and health systems, diversify its economy away from energy and towards hi-tech and services, and address its demographic crisis. Anders Åslund noted that Russia ranks 12th among the 15 former Soviet republics in economic growth since 1999; and both the murder rate and corruption have increased in Putin’s second term. Graham contended that both Putin and Medvedev have demonstrated their understanding of the chal-lenges still before Russia, but “the question is whether they will have the wisdom, the political courage, and the skill to act on that understanding, and whether Russia can enter a post-Putin Russia, with or without Putin as a major political actor.”


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Richard Mills

tatiana Milovidova

Milstein Family Foundation, Inc.

Minnesota twins

Kenneth Mitchell

Beth Mitchneck

sidney Monan

Moncreif Oil International

Kenneth F. Montgomery

Kathryn Moore

thomas Morelli

Victor Mote

the Mumford Family trust

Jay and Joyce Mumford

Murphy Oil Company

Matthew Murray

n.t. Callaway Real estate, LLC

national Committee on american

Foreign Policy

Carol nechemias

Leroy P. nesbit

Leilani newton

new York Community trust

Barbara norton

OC Oerlikon Management aG

Occidental Petroleum

Robert P. Odell, Jr.

William e. Odom

Charles Ofner

Mr. and Mrs. George D. O’neill

abby and George O’neill trust

Marlene Onulak

samuel and alyne Oppenheim

Ludmilla Orelup

Gerald O’shaughnessy

alexander Papamarkou

Boris Paretzkin

Parker Drilling Company

Robert Parker

Kathleen Parthé

Chat Paterson

susan and alan Patricof

Katherine Paxton

Paul and ellen Peachey

susan Pearce

PepsiCo. Foundation, Inc.

etta Perkins

Margaret Pertzoff

Petroalliance services Company

Peter Pettibone

the Philanthropic Collaborative

elizabeth Pickering

Pilot Foundation

Raymond Platig

PnC Bank

eugene Pohren

William Pomeranz

Philip Pomper and alice e. Pomper

Cathy Popkin

Robert Post

angelika and Justin Powell

Walter Pozen

John R. and svetlana Price

PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia B.V.

Marin Pundeff and Janet Ziegler

Quigley and associates

Quinn Gillespie & associates

samuel Rachlin

Hugh Ragsdale

Karen and Donald Raliegh

Robert Rand

C.W. Randell

Clyde e. Rankin

Gilbert Rappaport

Rudolph Rasin

anne Rassweiler

Philip and Marian Raup

Peter Reddaway

Carl and Collette Reddel

Joyce Reed

steven W. Reiquam

thomas and nancy Remington

Renova, Inc.

nicholas Riasanovsky

Lois Rice

nathaniel Richmond

Yale Richmond

alfred Rieber

t.H. Rigby

Jerome Rinkus

steven Robinson

David Rockefeller

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Richard and Jean Rodes

Robert and Lucy Rodes

susan and saul Roenstreich

Hans and Claire Rogger

susan and elihu Rose Foundation

samuel Rosenthal

arthur Ross

William M. Roth

William and Joan Roth Fund

William Rougle

Gilbert and Marsha Rozman

Christine Ruane

Blair a. Ruble

William Rueckert

Dietrich and Marilyn Rueschemeyer

the Ruchelman Law Firm

Russia House associates

andrea Rutherford

Maureen Ryan

takeshi sakon

Richard salomon

Marideth sandler

James scanlan

Michael schammel

albert and Kathryn schmidt

ann I. schneider

Janet schwartz

Morton and Runa schwartz

Jospeh and Barbara sciacchitano

the scowcroft Group

David scullin

erik severeid

R.K. and Barbara severin

sG Corporate and Investment Banking

Robert sharlet

evgeny shchemelev


John and Judith sheehan

sinclair sheers

Louise shelley

Leslie and Michael sherman

nobuo and Reiko shimotamai

Vladimir shlapentokh

Marshall D. and Collette shulman

Raja sidawi

sidley austin, LLP

Frank R. silbajoris

John simmons

Martin sletzinger

Darrell and Diane slider

Richard slucher

Raymond smilor

Gordon smith

Polina smith

theodore smith

elena sokol

solomon smith Barney

adam sondey

John and sheila sontag

sovlink

Valery n. soyfer

Joshua and ellen spero

the sputnik Group

Frederick and elizabeth stafford

Herman and Carol starobin

s. Frederick starr

Charles G. stefan

Vladimir steffel

John J. stephan

Richard stites

Gregory stoupnitzky

Donald B. strauss

stephen P. strickland

adam and Valerye strochak

Robert D. stuart Jr. Foundation

Rosemary stuart

Gary sullivan

sun Group of Companies

Gerald surh

John P. and elizabeth L. surma Family

Fund

eleanor B. sutter

Galina svidirova

Michael swafford

anne swartz

Frank e. taplin

Margaret taplin

antony taquey

Charles taquey

theodore and Gislea taranovski

Gael and Robert tarleton

William and Jane taubman

elizabeth teague

John tedstrom

Mark teeter

Mike telson

Helen teplitskaia

Victor and Rita terras

teton Petroleum Company

Dean and Jane thompson

Judith thornton

tnK-BP

William Mills todd III

Kazuhiko and tomoko togo

albert and Donna tosches

Vladimir toumanoff

the towbin Fund

Donald W. treadgold

J.C. troncale

James and Margaret trott

trust for Mutual understanding

Robert tucker

Robert C. and eugenia tucker

Valerie tumins

James turner

Judyth twigg

stephen tyree

tyson Foods, Inc.

uBs Zurich

Richard ullman

Cornelius M. ulman

united states trust Company

Michael H. Van Dusen

William J. Vanden Heuvel

Vanco energy Company

nina Van Rensselaer

Margaret van schaack

Viktor F. Vekselberg

Milos Velimirovic

thomas Venclova

VimpelCom

enzo Viscusi

Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von Hoffmann

theodore and angela Von Laue

John Von Kannon

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Karl-eugen Wädekin

Louis Wagner

Franklin Walker

Peggy Walker

Wallach Foundation

Wal-Mart stores, Inc.

the Washington Group

thomas J. Watson

ted Weeks

edmund Weiant

Irwin Weil

s. todd Weinberg

Mary and Leon Wheeler

eston and edith White

White & Case LLP

Julie a. Whitney Foundation

thomas P. Whitney

Cynthia Whittaker

allan Wildman

eric and alberta Willenz

Robert C. Williams

stanley B. Winters

John Winthrop

John Winthrop Charity trust

William Woehrlin

sharon Wolchik

World affairs Council of Washington,

D.C.

Christine Worobec

C. Ben and Donna Wright

Dean s. Worth

edward Zebrowski

Betty and serge Zenkovsky

William Zimmerman

Harold Zoslow

anonymous (12)


contrIbutors to the robert h. baraZ fund*

Kenneth and Claire angevine

George and Dorothy avery

William and Jane Black

Cole and Martha Blasier

terrance and sarah Byrne

David and elizabeth Cayer

Dorothy e. Cheever

Richard and Ruth Curl

eileen R. Dohn

Robert and Louise Dudley

natalie t. Friedlander

Robert and Jean German

Jon and selene Gibney

Jon and Jennifer Glaudemans

Peter a. Hauslohner

edward Hurwitz

Curtis Kamman

Heyward Isham

Mark Katz

Isabel G. Kulski

Karl and Martha C. Mautner

Douglas P. Mulholland

Henry s. Myers

Leroy P. nesbit

Karen L. Puschel

sheldon Rapoport

Morton and Runa schwartz

William and sandra shaw

John and sheila sontag

Charles G. stefan

Leon taran

Volodymyr tytov

Kathleen M. Walker

Benjamin and Geraldine Zook

robert h. baraZ Interns

Gina Ottoboni, 1991–92

thomas Mahalek, 1992–93

susanna Bolle, 1993–94

David Russell, 1994–95

shana Hansell, 1995–96

Mark Webber, 1996–97

Kimberly Righter, 1997–98

Paul du Quenoy, 1998–99

Cynthia neil, 1999–2000

Jon Kakasenko, 2000–01

Olena nikolayenko 2001–02

Jane Buchanan, 2002–03

adam Fuss, 2003–04

sophia Plagakis, 2004–05

Maria Vassilieva, 2005–06

stergos Kaloudis, 2006–07

Katherine Pruess, 2007-08

Megan Cully, 2008-09

* In 1991 the Kennan Institute established a research internship program in honor of the late Robert H. Baraz, former Director of the Office of Research and Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe at the U.S. Department of State.

THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARSLee H. Hamilton, President and Director

BOARD OF TRUSTEESJoseph B. Gildenhorn, ChairSander R. Gerber, Vice ChairPublic Members: James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress; G. Wayne Clough, The Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; Michael O. Leavitt, The Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Condoleezza Rice, The Secretary, U.S. Department of State; Margaret Spellings, The Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United StatesPrivate Citizen Members: Charles Cobb, Robin Cook, Charles L. Glazer, Carlos M. Gutierrez, Susan Hutchison, Barry S. Jackson, Ignacio E. Sanchez

WILSON COUNCILSam Donaldson (President), Elias F. Aburdene, Weston Adams, Russell L. Anmuth, Cyrus A. Ansary, David Apatoff, Lawrence E. Bathgate, Theresa E. Behrendt, John B. Beinecke, Joseph C. Bell, Stuart A. Bernstein, James D. Bindenagel, Rudy Boschwitz, Donald E. Brown, Melva Bucksbaum, Todd Builione, Amelia Caiola Ross, Mark Chandler, Holly Fridholm Clubok, Melvin Cohen, Ron Coppersmith, Mac Donley, Elizabeth Dubin, F. Samuel Eberts, I. Steven Edelson, Mark Epstein, Melvyn J. Estrin, Susan R. Farber, A. Huda Farouki, Michael Fleming, Joseph H. Flom, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Norman Freidkin, John H. French, Morton Funger, Alma Gildenhorn, Michael Glosserman, Roy M. Goodman, Loretta Greene, Raymond A. Guenter, Kathryn Walt Hall, Edward L. Hardin, Patricia Hassett, Laurence Hirsch, Osagie Imasogie, Darrell E. Issa, Benjamin Jacobs, Miguel Jauregui Rojas, Maha Kaddoura, Nuhad Karaki, James Kaufman, Edward W. Kelley, Christopher J. Kennan, Joan Kirkpatrick, Willem Kooyker, Steven Kotler, Richard L. Kramer, William H. Kremer, Muslim Lakhani, James C. Langdon, Raymond Learsy, Harold O. Levy, Genevieve Lynch, Frederic V. Malek, David S. Mandel, Anastasia K. Mann, Markos Marinakis, Thierry Marnay, Daniel M. Martin, John J. Mason, Anne McCarthy, Stephen G. McConahey, Thomas F. McLarty, Donald F. McLellan, John Kenneth Menges, Mr. and Mrs. Tobia G. Mercuro, Kathryn Mosbacher-Wheeler, Stuart H. Newberger, John E. Osborn, Jeanne L. Phillips, Rob Quartel, Thomas R. Reedy, Renate Rennie, Edwin Robbins, Nina Rosenwald, Juan Sabater, Anthony Scaramucci, Steven E. Schmidt, Patricia Schramm, Timothy R. Scully, Hyun-hyo (Frank) Shin, Thomas H. Shuler, Raja W. Sidawi, Mark A. Skolnik, William A. Slaughter, James H. Small, Shawn Smeallie, Thomas F. Stephenson, Robert A. Stewart, Peggy Styer, Peter Terpeluk, Norma Kline Tiefel, Timothy Towell, Mark C. Treanor, Anthony G. Viscogliosi, Marc R. Viscogliosi, Michael Waldorf, Christine Warnke, Peter S. Watson, Pete Wilson, Deborah Wince-Smith, Herbert S. Winokur, Paul M. Wolff, Richard S. Ziman, Nancy M. Zirkin

ABOUT THE CENTERThe Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is the living national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. The Wilson Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. The Center commemorates the ideals and concerns of Woodrow Wilson by: providing a link between the world of ideas and the world of policy; and fostering research, study, discussion, and collaboration among a full spectrum of indi-viduals concerned with policy and scholarship in national and world affairs.


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