Insights

In a new article for Demokratizatsiya, political scientist Nargis Kassenova, director of our Program on Central Asia, examines the region's management of its "Russia challenge" amid the contradictions between Moscow's neo-imperial practices and its anti-colonial rhetoric.

In introducing the latest issue of her project’s digital magazine, historian Kelly O’Neill pries open the treasure trove of stories brought out of archives by the humans who enter them, including our brilliant students.

Now they move onto their next chapters, with workplaces ranging from an art museum and a private school to NATO and the World Bank.

An exhibition of works by Alevtina Kakhidze brings viewers into the intimate space where everyday life collides with military conflict. On view through Aug. 10.

The latest set of artworks to be mounted at the Davis Center portrays U.S.-based Russian-speakers in a liminal, fragile realm straddling the public and the private. On view through Nov. 24.

You think writing an essay in your native language is hard? Try it in one you’ve been studying for just a few years.

Seeing Americans rally for her native country inspired REECA student Anastasiia Pereverten’s master's thesis. Read her story, published as part of Harvard's "Commencement 2026" series.

War reporter Paweł Pieniążek ('26) used his time in the REECA Program to augment his journalistic skills with rigorous training in the social sciences.

Explore our newly digitized library collection showing the country’s transition from communism to capitalism in its first post-Soviet decade.