Anastasia Shteinert

Oct 1, 2024 | publicseminar.org | George Pattison |Inessa Medzhibovskaya |Anastasia Shteinert |Katherine Kelaidis

Statue of a Young Dostoevsky | Photographed by Kandukuru Nagarjun / CC BY 2.0Nine months after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin delivered a speech in which he argued that although Western leaders always claim to be the champions of freedom, Western liberalism was now engaged in the complete suppression of anything that contradicted its view of what was socially and culturally desirable.

Sep 27, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anastasia Shteinert |Hannah Leffingwell |Jeffrey Goldfarb |Daniel Foster

Moscow, Domes of Churches in the Kremlin (1952) | Roger Fenton / Public DomainKnowing your enemy as the key to victory is centuries-old wisdom. Washington seemed to embrace it during the Cold War, investing significant resources in the development of Soviet studies. In recent years, however, the situation has changed. Researchers and university professors are concerned about the deepening crisis in Russian studies in the United States.

Feb 20, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Anastasia Shteinert

Navalny memorial outside the Consulate-General of Russia, New York City, on February 18, 2024. Credit: Anastasia ShteinertFor me, as well as for thousands of my compatriots, Alexei Navalny represented the hope that Russia might become a better country. His voice echoed around the world even from the confines of “Polar Wolf,” a brutal colony in the Arctic.

Jun 26, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Anastasia Shteinert |Vladimir Kara-Murza |Alex Strelnikov |Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Image credit: Vladimir Kara-Murza makes the sign of the cross at the place of Boris Nemtsov’s death in Moscow, Moscow 2021. Photo: Michał Siergiejevicz. Source: Wikipedia CommonsIn April 2023 the Russian opposition politician and human rights activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against the war on Ukraine.

Jun 21, 2023 | eurozine.com | Anastasia Shteinert |Alex Strelnikov

In April 2023 the Russian opposition politician and human rights activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against the war on Ukraine. He was found guilty of ‘running an ‘undesirable organization’, of ‘spreading falsehoods about the Russian army’ and of high treason – likely in connection with his contribution to the Magnitsky Act, passed by US Congress in 2012.