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Kurilla: Kremlin policies condemning Soviet repression a step in the right direction

(Moscow Times) The government announced a new policy this week condemning attempts to justify mass Soviet repression, a move that appears to directly contradict official rhetoric and state actions during…

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Kurilla: Ban on some history books in Sverdlovsk is disappointing

(RBTH) The Kommersant business daily reports that the Education Ministry of the Sverdlovsk Region in the Urals [800 miles east of Moscow] has ordered history books published with the support of American…

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To Thomas Graham: We Should Understand Russian History Differently

In a recent Financial Times op-ed (“Europe’s Problem is with Russia, not Putin”) Thomas Graham, a managing director at Kissinger Associates and former senior director for Russia on the US…

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Kurilla: Russia needs to do more to acknowledge the gulag

(The New Yorker) An officer in the Red Army. A journalist. The director of Moscow Café Number Three. On Wednesday, a soft litany sounded from a little green median at…

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Cuban Missile Crisis – A Lesson in Diplomacy

(The Moscow Times) This month marks 52 years since the Cuban missile crisis, which took place from Oct. 14 to 28 in 1962. The crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over Soviet…

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Do we need sanctions against Hemingway and Tolstoy?

(RBTH) One of the hottest periods of the Cold War ended in January 1958, with the signing of the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, also known as the “Agreement Between the Soviet Union…

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Kurilla: US-Russia human, cultural and scientific contacts built up over 20 years are being torn thoughtlessly apart

(AFP/MSN) Russia has pulled out of a long-running US-funded student exchange programme, accusing the organisers of letting a teenager stay behind in the United States in the care of a…

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New Policy Memo: The Implications of Russia’s Law against the “Rehabilitation of Nazism”

Amid the political turmoil following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the unrest in eastern Ukraine, the Russian parliament revived a bill criminalizing the “rehabilitation of Nazism” that President Vladimir Putin…

The Implications of Russia’s Law against the “Rehabilitation of Nazism”

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Kurilla: New Russian law would criminalize historical research

(The New York Times) MOSCOW — As many Russians spent a holiday weekend reveling in the annual display of military might that marks their victory over Nazi Germany, the tension…

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Kurilla: Kremlin policies condemning Soviet repression a step in the right direction

Kurilla: Ban on some history books in Sverdlovsk is disappointing

To Thomas Graham: We Should Understand Russian History Differently

Kurilla: Russia needs to do more to acknowledge the gulag

Cuban Missile Crisis – A Lesson in Diplomacy

Do we need sanctions against Hemingway and Tolstoy?

Kurilla: US-Russia human, cultural and scientific contacts built up over 20 years are being torn thoughtlessly apart

New Policy Memo: The Implications of Russia’s Law against the “Rehabilitation of Nazism”

The Implications of Russia’s Law against the “Rehabilitation of Nazism”

Kurilla: New Russian law would criminalize historical research