Over four sessions we will work with a beautiful, highly detailed plan of Odesa/Odessa published in 1894. We will study the map’s structure and content and go through the process of pulling it apart (and putting it back together again).
Dr. Andrei Yakovlev will discuss the composition of Russia's ruling coalition and the incentives of its main elite groups — senior officials, oligarchs, and top officers of the security services.
A prominent Georgian businessman and a New York Times data journalist discuss Georgia's economy and its prospective strategies in today's volatile international environment.
The presentation will delve into the factors contributing to the expansion of the Chala-Qazaq population in late imperial Russia and the tsarist regime's efforts to regulate and confine this elusive ethnic category.
The event and its aftermath enabled Yeltsin to expand the power of the presidency and restructure the political system through the adoption of a new constitution in December 1993.
