CERES Faculty, Alumni and Students in the News

CERES Director - Professor of Government and Foreign Service Dr. Angela Stent

--March, 2012, Article Putin 2.0? with Dr. Stent's reaction to the December 4th, 2011 Duma elections in Russia

--December, 2011, Article with Dr. Stent's reaction to the December 4th, 2011 Duma elections in Russia

--VIDEO: Appeared on PBS' NewsHour on September 26, 2011 to discuss what the Putin-Medvedev swap will mean for US-Russian relations.

--Read"The Russia-Georgia War: three years on" August 8, 2011 on the Valdai Discussion Club's website.

CERES Undergraduate Certificate Student - Jonathan Askonsas

-- Awarded the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. He plans on using it to study the history of innovation policy in Russia since the early days of the Cold War. 

CERES Faculty Member - Professor of Government and International Affairs Dr. Harley Balzer

--More than Moscow: Protests in Russia, 1991 and 2011-12, February, 2012 Spoke at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 

CERES Faculty Member - Professor of Government and International Affairs Dr. Charles King

--VIDEO: Spoke at Villanova University, April, 2011 

CERES Student - Jessica Sims

--Iraq on the Brink, February, 2012 Published with Morton Abramowitz in the National Interest 

CERES Alumnus - Gadir Shiraliyev

          --Baku: City without an Ambassador, January, 2012 Published in the Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs 

CERES Alumnus - Eugene Imas

--Russia's Putin Paradox, April, 2012 Published on Partisans.org

--Turkmen Election: We the People - the Royal We, March, 2012 Published on Partisans.org

--White is not a color (revolution), January, 2012 Published on Partisans.org 

--Kyrgyzstan's lost-and-found democracy, December, 2011 Published on Partisans.org, nominated as Foreign Affairs article of year

--Russia and the WTO, December, 2011 Published on Partisans.org on

CERES Student - Alexis Zimberg

--Moscow's Merry Pranksters, Published in Foreign Policy about the nexus of street art and politics in Russia.

--Published in Foreign Policy online about her work on graffiti

--Interviewed by RFE/RL about her work on graffiti in Belarus.

CERES alumnus and current Alfa Fellow John Yi

--Check out John's Articles in The Journal of Foreign Relations

Also, look at some of his other published work:

--An Anti-China Axis?, in The Diplomat, December, 2011

--Energy Diplomacy, in The Diplomat, November, 2011

--When China, Russia Cosy Up, in The Diplomat, October, 2011

--Russia and Modernization: The United States versus China in Foreign Policy Digest, September, 2011

CERES alumnus and PhD Candidate at Nottingham University Jakub Kulhanek:

--“Russia’s Uncertain Rapprochement with NATO,” Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Journal, Vol. 156, No. 1, February/March 2011, pp. 40-45.

--“The Fundamentals of Contemporary Russia’s EU Policy,” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 57, No. 5, September/October 2010. (Impact Factor 0.368; 2009), pp.51-63.

--“EU’s Eastern Partnership: One step forward and two steps back?” Harvard International Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, Fall 2009, (co-authored with Jan Hamacek).