Student Projects

Critical Issues in the Eurasian, Russian and East European Region

Students at CERES are dedicated to keeping up with critical issues that affect our region.  Take a look at some of the current issues covered below:

Student projects done in 2024-25

• How Russia Is Targeting Moldova’s Path to the EU

Student projects done in 2023-24

• Measles Outbreaks in Kazakhstan: Why This is More Than Vaccine Hesitancy
• Inheritors of a lost cause: A comparative analysis of the origins and fates of the Basmachi Movement and the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
• Why Central Asian Labor Migrants Keep Coming to Russia Post-War
• The pseudo-metaphysics of Russian Cosmism. A review of “Lenin Walked on the Moon”

Student projects done in 2022-23

• Russia’s Information War at Home: What Are These “Metodichki”?
• Eurasian Economic Union: a Project to Fulfill the Needs of Russia or a Catalyst for Effective Integration?