by Daniel C. Waugh
“While indeed there seems to be an endless fascination with the ‘Mongol Hordes,’ as I hope to demonstrate here, in fact there is much about Mongolia’s more distant and more recent past deserving of our attention.”
Spring / Summer 2010
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by Mary Childs
“In many ways, Tbilisi will be just as it has been: the hot and salty khachapuri will be as delicious, the restaurant music as loud, and the watermelon, wine -- and my favorite, an electric-green, tarragon-flavored soda called tarkhun -- will be as sweet.”
by Scott Dareff
“Doing fieldwork in a conflict zone presents some unique challenges to the researcher, but they are probably not the challenges one would expect. A conflict zone does not match the images from the TV or movies of Saving Private Ryan-type scenes where everyone is constantly under fire.”
by Derek Hom
“In Lutsk, a town of about 206,000 people in Volynska Oblast in western Ukraine, Victory Day both venerates the city’s triumph over the Fascist occupation in World War II and celebrates the country’s independent status.”
by Steve Effron
"On Saturday, April 17, academics, students and residents of the greater Seattle area with an interest in the affairs of the former communist sphere convened on the misty, scenic campus of Western Washington University in Bellingham for the Sixteenth Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies."
