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Following Putin’s Lead, Russians Warm Up to Trump’s America

According to recent polls, 80% of Russians believe Moscow should mend fences with the U.S., even though 66% also believe that relations with the West will always be based on mistrust, writes Davis Center associate Simon Saradzhyan.

Davis Center Welcomes New Faculty Director

Prof. Grzegorz Ekiert of Harvard’s Department of Government will take the reins this summer.

Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed (right), preceptor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Bohdan Tokarskyi, assistant professor of Ukrainian literature and culture, at a panel at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in April.

Cultural Memory Amid Russia's Denial of Ukraine

“I wanted to analyze how this pursuit to eliminate Ukrainians as a nation shaped the way Ukrainians remember themselves,” Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed of Harvard's Slavic Department says of her new book about contested memory.

Memoir: Recollecting the Benefits of Shoe Leather Diplomacy in Turkmenistan

With sweeping changes made to toponyms from 1991 to 2015, diplomats were “working in a country in which we did not know where things were,” retired U.S. Ambassador Allan Mustard writes for our Central Asia program.

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Scholars Without Borders

Rebuilding scholarly communities disrupted by Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The present-day Davis Center fosters understanding through dialogue, research, and scholarly exchange. Although geopolitical harmony has eluded us for many decades, we have always hoped for and promoted peaceful mutual understanding. Simmering violence in eastern Ukraine and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world has been alarming for years, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a definitive change in the political trajectory of the region.

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Davis Center Statement on the War Against Ukraine

The Davis Center stands with the people of Ukraine and with the many people around the world who are and will be harmed by this war.