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Tradition and Innovation in the Apple Orchard

The Imperiia Project invites you to immerse yourself in the work of botanists and bureaucrats who nurtured a strategic obsession with Crimean fruit trees.

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Davis Center Wins NRC, FLAS Grants for 2022-2025

Harvard has been named a National Resource Center for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia, and received a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship grant under Title VI.

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Kazakhstan: Trapped between Russia and the West

As the geopolitical split in Eurasia widens, the country’s balancing act will be a hard feat to pull off, writes Nargis Kassenova in Politico.

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Secondary Field in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia

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Russia’s War against Ukraine

Analysis, events, and resources for understanding the ongoing conflict.

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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Statement on Russia’s War against Ukraine

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Red Horizon

Push your negotiation and decision-making skills to the next level in this immersive executive education experience.