Insights

“There is still a lingering stigma associated with socialism due to the Soviet experience,” a youth organizer told Ričards Umbraško, a Harvard student who spent the summer researching and writing in Georgia.

Olympic games have often served as the backdrop for big foreign policy moves in Russia, including a previous high-profile prisoner release, Cris Martin writes for The Boston Globe.

The Davis Center's Scholars Without Borders program has teamed up with Virginia Commonwealth University to give library access and research opportunities to Ukrainians whose work has been disrupted by war.

The Davis Center’s Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia showcases vibrant scholars eager to share and collaborate with others who study the region.

While Russian-speakers in Latvia are no monolith, recent polling on culpability for the war suggests splits in views along ethnolinguistic lines, writes our visiting scholar Māris Andžāns.

Davis Center postdoc Alex Averbuch has compiled a unique collection of photographs and letters sent home by so-called Ostarbeiters, or "eastern workers." Here, he discusses the conscripts’ creative ways of defying totalitarian control in communicating with loved ones.

Once again, our Georgian studies program joins forces with the Somerville Arts Council to catalyze a vibrant cross-cultural collaboration among four talented artists. Meet them here, then see them perform.

Gen Z, previously unengaged, may now push the country toward political revolution, catalyzed by the ruling party’s foreign agents law, writes Stephen Jones, director of our Georgian studies program.

Contrary to Putin’s earlier claims, the Kremlin is reversing old privatization deals — billions of dollars' worth — and redistributing assets in favor of loyal entrepreneurs, writes economist Andrei Yakovlev.