Past Events

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President George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia-US Relations in 2025: Can Arctic Science Diplomacy Mend Strategic Fences?

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Prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, Moscow and the West had built up 30 years of scientific cooperation, now halted. Could restored ties in Arctic science help thaw U.S.-Russia relations?

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

A crowd of journalists and camera-people crowd a street, ready to report.

How (Not) to Cover Lies: Lessons From Georgia

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As our society struggles with the onslaught of AI-powered disinformation, a small country in the Caucasus offers insights we can all learn from.

The film poster for 'The Unfinished Time' highlights prominent figures from Russia's turbulent 1990s, centered around Boris Yeltsin

The Unfinished Time: 'Vote or Lose' (Episode 7)

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Please join us for the second screening in the "Unfinished Time" documentary series and conversations about Russia in the 1990s, this time at Tufts University. Episode 7 explores Yeltsin’s reelection campaign in 1996.

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Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian & Eurasian Studies

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Join us for an afternoon of panels and discussion as six of our current visitors present on the work they’ve been doing at Harvard.

Timothy J. Colton
Timothy Colton

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Chairman, Advisory Board, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Linda Cook
Linda J. Cook

Professor Emerita of Political Science and Slavic Studies, Brown University

Russina leaders of the 90s in the picture

The Unfinished Time: 'The Standoff' (Episode 5)

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Join us for two documentary screenings and conversations about Russia in the 1990s. Part 5 of the 10-episode series "The Unfinished Time" focuses on Yeltsin’s economic reforms and the lead-up to Russia’s 1993 constitutional crisis.