The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
Writing. Convening. Teaching. Training. Modeling. Experimenting. Engaging. Across time zones and international boundaries, members of our community are at work. Our “Insights” gallery is a multimedia guide to intellectual life at the Davis Center.
Davis Center associate Vera Mironova, who has spent years studying militants from the ex-USSR, says that Russia’s war mobilization may have turned the concert hall outside Moscow into a relatively easy target.
As Vladimir Putin sailed into his fifth term as president in Moscow, Harvard's Russia Matters Project surveyed some leading Western experts on Russia to assess the election results' impact on the West.
A historical look at the geopolitical vulnerability of this small country tucked between Ukraine and the EU, by Davis Center alum Isabelle DeSisto and Prof. Grigore Pop-Eleches.
The latest offering from our Imperiia Project shows the frequency and impact of fires across European Russia during the tumultuous years of 1860 to 1864.
Former presidential bodyguard Alexei Dyumin has long been mentioned as a candidate to one day succeed his boss. Who is he? REECA’s Olga Kiyan gives a snapshot.
In addition to his anti-regime activism, the opposition politician often embraced nationalist positions central to beliefs espoused by Vladimir Putin, writes REECA alum Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon.
The online collection, including about 200 prints from the Davis Center Library, vastly expands opportunities to study a legacy of state-backed messaging and disinformation that reverberates worldwide today.