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by Jim Augerot
“Reflection and transition are in the air this fall as we think back to the dramatic events in the Soviet Union in the second half of 1991, and look forward to what is to come in the next 20 years in the field of Russian, East European and Central Asian studies.”
by Daniel C. Waugh
“Approaching mid-day twenty years ago today I was walking, probably in something of an alcoholic haze, down the main street of Osh in Kyrgyzstan at the head of the Ferghana Valley. My Russian mountaineering friends and I had just returned to town after climbing in the Pamirs. I had gone to Central Asia with a group of the Seattle Mountaineers as part of a climbing exchange.”
“A collection of faculty, staff, and community memories about where they were during the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
by Natalia Martinez-Paz
“Naida began crying half way through her story. She was explaining how she had been forced from her home at gunpoint, the transient life that followed, the unstable postwar existence and now the return home. ”
by Sascha Schilbach
“Even from the auditorium’s back row the leader and founder of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR)—Vladimir Volfovitch Zhirinovsky—looked menacing. Sweating through his pink shirt half an hour late, Zhirinovsky took the stage in a flurry of bodyguards and uneven applause. Notebook ready and pen poised, I settled into my seat in the back corner of Vladivostok’s main theatre.”
by Eric Damiana
“At the beginning of September, a group of eight students and one UW professor descended on Prague, Czech Republic. We stayed for three weeks, taking intensive language courses and enjoying daily cultural and academic excursions in and around Prague.”
by Sascha Schilbach
“With the city's construction boom dominating headlines these days it is easy to overlook themes and issues that matter to the common resident of Vladivostok. But, despite the road closures, traffic jams, wet concrete and clouds of dust, life in Vladivostok continues.”
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Scott Radnitz, Ellison Center Director and Chair; Associate Professor Jackson School of International Studies
Katarzyna Dziwirek, Professor and Chair Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Michael Biggins, Head Librarian Slavic and East European Section, UW Libraries
Glennys Young, Professor Department of History, Jackson School of International Studies
Arista Cirtautas, Lecturer Jackson School of International Studies
Diana Pearce, Senior Lecturer School of Social Work
Guntis Smidchens, Assistant Professor Scandinavian Studies
