Christy DeSmith

Guest Contributor

Harvard Staff Writer

Christy DeSmith is a staff writer at The Harvard Gazette.

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Can Russia Be Denied?

February 13, 2026

With Feb. 24 marking four years since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Davis Center hosted Ukrainian marine and former POW Yevhen Malik and Alexandra Vacroux of the Kyiv School of Economics for a discussion of how this war might end.

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Helping Scholars Upended by Russia-Ukraine War

February 13, 2024

The Harvard Gazette reports on efforts by the Davis Center’s Scholars Without Borders program to provide networking support and professional development to academics exiled and endangered by the war.

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