@kennaninstitute.bsky.social
The Kennan Institute is an independent, non-partisan institute for research on Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus and the post-Soviet states.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social⚫ Mikhail Durnenkov’s Eisenstein revisits the filmmaker’s struggle to preserve his artistic integrity under Stalin, a dilemma with new resonance for Russian artists after 2022.
https://www.kennaninstitute.org/articles/from-self-censorship-to-expose
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social⚪ When did Putin’s calculus toward Ukraine change?
Kateryna Shynkaruk points to winter 2020 as a possible turning point, when Moscow may have concluded that controlling Ukraine through domestic political leverage was no longer viable.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Nataliya Shok, Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Her work spans vaccine diplomacy, biosecurity, public health, science policy, and geopolitics.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Nils Haneklaus, Senior Postdoc at the University of Vienna. His research examines energy security, critical materials, strategic supply chains, and their geopolitical implications.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Anastasiia Lystsova, PhD Candidate in History at Princeton University. Her research explores the Russian Empire, sovereignty, imperial governance, and the European political order.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Dmitry Dubrovskiy, whose research examines academic freedom, higher education, and academic rights in Russia. He is a Research Fellow at Charles University and the Center for Independent Social Research at George Washington University.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Irina Busygina, Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a scholar of comparative politics.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Varvara Pakhomenko, an expert on armed conflict and security policy across the post-Soviet space. Her work has focused extensively on the North Caucasus and the war in Ukraine.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet @emilyehoge.bsky.social, Assistant Professor of Soviet History at Clemson University.
Her research focuses on the political economy of violence in Russia and Eastern Europe.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Thomas Barrett of the Kyiv School of Economics and Harvard’s Davis Center. His research examines economic transformation and changing geopolitical alignments across Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.socialMeet Anna Chechel, Professor at Mariupol State University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Her research examines institutional resilience, adaptive governance, and sustainable recovery amid war and displacement.
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social🌐 Introducing the inaugural 2026–2027 Kennan Institute Digital Fellows.
First, meet @bgorski.bsky.social 🧵⬇️
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social🔴 What can a prisoner exchange reveal about a new Cold War?
Drew Hinshaw & Joe Parkinson of the @wsj.com discuss Swap, the 2024 prisoner exchange, and hostage-taking in Putin’s Russia.
🗓️ Oct. 9 | 11 AM ET
🔗 RSVP: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social🔴 Why do measures of support for Putin vary depending on the question researchers ask?
🎧 Listen:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6q2owIYrVMpchd6eGjJHe1?si=9f118db7a2c941ca
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social💭🇩🇪 Berlin: Join us for The Question of Global Russia.
@alexgabuev.bsky.social, @hannanotte.bsky.social, Michael Kimmage & moderator @stevenerlanger.bsky.social examine Russia’s evolving global role.
🗓️ Oct. 12 | 6–7:30 PM
📍 Rudolf Virchow Lecture Hall
🎟️ Free
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social🔴 Why might Russia’s economic leadership be particularly effective in a crisis?
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social💭 1654, 1991, or 2021?
Michael Kimmage examines how chronology shapes the way we understand the origins of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
▶️ Watch:
https://youtu.be/KoaTMPf_14o?is=nBbvYJXbGykpYBao
With thanks to @umich.edu CREES and @carnegie.org
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social💭 On Oct. 7 at Yale, Mary Sarotte and Michael Kimmage will examine key turning points from 1991 to 2022 and consider what the twenty-first-century archive will look like for future historians.
🗓️ Oct. 7 | 4:15–5:45 PM
📍 Yale University
Special thanks to Yale’s REEES Program and the @carnegie.org
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social🔴 Can Russians still imagine what victory in Ukraine would look like?
Samuel Greene argues that defining victory is becoming increasingly difficult for both the Russian public and the Kremlin.
▶️ Watch the full conversation:
https://youtu.be/gfC20QhhOnM?si=y8Atis4jl-EokcfR
@kennaninstitute.bsky.social💭 On Sept. 30, Michael Kimmage joins the Munk School at the @utoronto.ca to examine how chronology shapes explanations of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
🗓️ Sept. 30 | 4–6 PM ET
📍 Toronto + Online
