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The ‘Crimea Question’ Anew
There is a sense of déja vu surrounding the present separatist crisis in Crimea, for there was a vibrant Russian secessionist movement in the region in the early 1990s. Crimea was then an important case in the former Soviet Union where war was widely...
A Roundtable Discussion: Why is Kyiv Burning? (audio recording)
Why is Kyiv Burning? The Turn to Violence in Ukraine’s Protest Movement and Its Political and Geostrategic Implications Timothy J. Colton, Department of Government; Jarek Domanski, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; George G. Grabowicz...
A Roundtable Discussion: Why is Kyiv Burning?
February 24, 2014. Harvard University. Why is Kyiv Burning? The Turn to Violence in Ukraine’s Protest Movement and Its Political and Geostrategic Implications Timothy J. Colton, Department of Government; Jarek Domanski, Weatherhead Center for...
A Leading Ukrainian Journalist Visits HURI
On January 25–29, HURI hosted Serhiy Leshchenko, one of today’s most celebrated Ukrainian investigative journalists and a deputy editor-in-chief of Ukraїns´ka Pravda, a leading online publication in Ukraine. Mr. Leshchenko helped to launch the Ukrainian...
What Do the Ukrainians Want? by Serhii Plokhii
For a third month now, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are continuing to demonstrate on the frozen streets of Kyiv, hoping that their voices will be heard by their own government and by governments and political leaders around the world. Many of them are...
An Appeal for the Protection of Life and Cultural Values in the Current Ukrainian Crisis
In the past few days downtown Kyiv has been turned into a battleground between pro-European protesters and government riot police (Berkut) supported by hired thugs who terrorize the protesters as well as the population of the city. On the morning of...
The Facsimile Reproduction of Shevchenko’s Haidamaky
"Гайдамаки": Факсимільне видання. Історія книжки. Інтерпретація. (У трьох книгах). Григорій Грабович. Шевченкові "Гайдамаки". Поема і критика./ Наук. ред. Олесь Федорук. – К. : Критика. 2013 р. – 360 с. ISBN 978-966-8978-67-8 (у 3-х кн.) ISBN 978-966-8978...
New from HURI Publications
On November 21, 2013 HURI launched three new publications at a reception held in conjunction with the annual ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) convention. They became available first for the participants of the...
International Conference: Quo Vadis Ukrainian History? Assessing the State of the Field
On November 19–20, 2013, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute hosted an international conference with the title " Quo Vadis, Ukrainian History? Assessing the State of the Field." Sponsored by the Institute and organized in cooperation with the...
Quo Vadis Ukrainian History?
9:30 AM Opening Remarks Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University), Hennadii Boriak (Institute of History, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv) 9:45 – 11:45 AM Panel 1. Horizons of Ukrainian Historiography Chair: Terry Martin (Harvard University)...
The Launch of MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine
The study of the Holodomor, the Great Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, has been steadily gaining momentum. In New York City on November 5–6, 2013, the conference "Taking Measure of the Holodomor" took place as part of the Zenowia and George Jurkiw Ukrainian...
ЛІТНЯ ПРАКТИКА В УКРАЇНІ
Гарвардські студенти, які займаються країнами колишнього Радянського Союзу в рамках магістерської програми, часто проводять літо в Україні. Програма їхніх польових досліджень зарані узгоджується з Центром російських і євразійських досліджень ім. Дейвіса...