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 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?

Student projects done in 2021-22

• Is the Russian Economy Really Suffering?
• The Week of Russo-American Negotiations: Context, Hiccups, and Aftermath
• 2022 Crisis in Kazakhstan
• Geopolitical Weapon or Commercial Venture? Politics and Economics of Nord Stream 2
• The 2021 German Federal Elections – What’s Next for German-Russian Relations?
• Russia, Turkey, and Iran: Regional Powers React to U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan 
• Ideology and Civilizational Identity in Russia’s State-Approved World-History Textbooks

Student projects done in 2020-21

• COVID-19 in Eurasia, Russia and Eastern Europe
• CERES Podcast
• Nord Stream 2
• Kyrgyzstan’s 2020 Parliamentary Elections
• Georgia’s 2020 Elections
• Kyrgyzstan’s 2021 Presidential Election
• Russia’s Reaction to the Events at the US Capitol on January 6
• Update: Georgia’s Parliament
• Biden vs. Putin
• The Ukrainian Border
• The Biden-Putin Summit