{"id":1003,"date":"2008-12-08T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T15:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2017-01-09T12:09:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T12:09:09","slug":"an-open-letter-to-president-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to President Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Memorial’s historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes<\/em> and some of the world’s leading academics<\/strong>
\n<\/p>\n

Dmitrii Medvedev<\/strong>, President of the Russian Federation
\nValentina Matvienko<\/strong>, Governor of St Petersburg
\nVladimir Lukin<\/strong>, Russian Federal Ombudsman for Human Rights
\nRashid Nurgaliev<\/strong>, Minister of Internal Affairs
\nSergey Lavrov<\/strong>, Minister of Foreign Affairs
\nYuriy Chaika<\/strong>, General Public Prosecutor of Russian Federation
\nVladimir Startsev<\/strong>, Public Prosecutor of Leningrad region,<\/p>\n

5 December 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n

We, the 259 signatories of this letter, members of the worldwide scholarly community, wish to express our deep concern at the actions of members of the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office of St Petersburg on 4 December 2008 during a raid of the premises of the Research and Information Centre Memorial in St Petersburg, ul. Rubinshteina 23-105, which resulted in the confiscation of the Centre\u2019s electronic archive.<\/p>\n

RIC Memorial is renowned for its research into the history of repression under Stalin, the phenomenon of the Gulag and unofficial movements of the 1950s-1980s in the USSR. The staff of RIC Memorial helped to establish the fate of many thousands of people, citizens of the USSR and other countries, who fell victim to the repressions during the 1930s-1950s. Many of us know members of RIC Memorial\u2019s staff in person or have used the organisation\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n

A total of eleven hard drives were confiscated. These drives hold several databases containing: biographical information on more than 50,000 victims of Stalinist repression; the results of the search for execution and burial sites of victims of repression (several hundred sites described or photographed); the photo collection (over 10,000 photographs) and accompanying textual material of the \u2018Virtual Gulag Museum\u2019, which is a unique online source linking more than one hundred local Russian museums. Also confiscated were the database to the oral history archive and an electronic collection of photographs, including scans of historic materials from private archives. What is more, the prosecutors took a hard drive and documents belonging to the art historian Aleksandr Margolis, a member of Memorial and the director of the International Charitable Foundation for the Renaissance of St. Petersburg-Leningrad, who is known for his commitment to the preservation of St Petersburg\u2019s historic architecture.<\/p>\n

The scholarly community fears the loss of a unique collection, which has been amassed over the course of more than twenty years of dedicated research. This collection is of priceless value for future generations of researchers in both Russia and the wider world and must not be compromised or destroyed.<\/p>\n

We are dismayed at the way the results of scholarly research and researchers are being treated by the authorities of St Petersburg and urge you to take action to ensure the electronic archive is immediately returned to its rightful owners.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

Orlando Figes, FRSL
\nProfessor of History
\nBirkbeck College
\nUniversity of London<\/strong><\/p>\n

Catriona Kelly FBA
\nProfessor of Russian,
\nDirector, European Humanities Research Centre
\nUniversity of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Dr. Mary McAuley
\nUniversity of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Laura Engelstein,
\nHenry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History,
\nDepartment Chair, Department of History
\nYale University, USA<\/p>\n

Beth Holmgren
\nPresident, AAASS (2008)
\nProfessor and Director of Graduate Studies
\nDepartment of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
\nDuke University, USA<\/p>\n

Sheila Fitzpatrick, D. Phil. (Oxon.),
\nBernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History,
\nUniversity of Chicago, USA
\nFellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
\nFellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
\nFellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities<\/p>\n

William G. Rosenberg,
\nAlfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History,
\nUniversity of Michigan, USA
\nPast President, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studes<\/p>\n

Istvan Rev
\nProfessor of History, Central European University
\nDirector, Open Society Archives<\/p>\n

Malcolm V. Jones BA PhD,
\nEmeritus Professor of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
\nUniversity of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n

Caroline Humphrey FBA
\nProfessor of Asian Anthropology
\nFellow of Kings College,
\nUniversity of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n

Simon Franklin
\nProfessor of Slavonic Studies,
\nUniversity of Cambridge,
\nLomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

Alexandra Hrycak
\nPresident, American Association for Ukrainian Studies
\nChair of the Department of Sociology,
\nReed College (Portland, USA)<\/p>\n

Sergei Bogatyrev,
\nSenior Lecturer in Early Russian History
\nDirector, Centre for Russian Studies
\nSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies
\nUniversity College London, UK<\/p>\n

Antony Beevor FRSL
\nVisiting Professor
\nBirkbeck College, UK<\/p>\n

Anne Applebaum,
\nAuthor of Gulag: A History,
\nWinner of 2004 Pulitzer prize<\/p>\n

Simon Sebag Montefiore
\nAuthor of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar<\/p>\n

Andrew Solomon
\nLecturer in Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
\nWinner of the National Book Award
\nPulitzer Prize finalist
\nWriter, The New York Times, The New Yorker<\/p>\n

Donna Tussing Orwin, Professor
\nDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literature
\nUniversity of Toronto, Canada
\nPresident, Tolstoy Society
\nRecipent, Pushkin Medal for Promotion of Russian Literature and Language, 2007<\/p>\n

John Elsworth, MA PhD,
\nProfessor Emeritus, University of Manchester,
\nPresident of ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies)<\/p>\n

Jehanne Gheith
\nAssociate Professor and Chair,
\nSlavic and Eurasian Studies
\nCo-Director, International Comparative Studies
\nDuke University, USA<\/p>\n

G.S. Smith, FBA,
\nProfessor Emeritus of Russian,
\nUniversity of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Barbara Heldt,
\nProfessor Emeritus of Russian,
\nUniversity of British Columbia, USA<\/p>\n

Josephine von Zitzewitz, MA, MPhil
\nDPhil candidate in Russian literature
\nUniversity of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n

Geoffrey Hosking, FBA
\nEmeritus Professor of Russian History
\nUniversity College London, UK<\/p>\n

Anatoly M. Khazanov, FBA
\nErnest Gellner Professor of Anthropology
\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Susan Morrissey,
\nSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies,
\nUniversity College London, UK<\/p>\n

Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj
\nProfessor
\nEditor of Canadian Slavonic Papers, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Stephen Wheatcroft
\nProfessor of History
\nUniversity of Melbourne
\nAustralia<\/p>\n

Dr. Kate Holland
\nAssistant Professor
\nDept of Slavic Langs and Lits
\nYale University, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Philip Cavendish
\nSenior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
\nRussian Department
\nSSEES\/UCL, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Adi Kuntsman,
\nJohn Moores University
\nLiverpool, UK<\/p>\n

Sara Dickinson
\nAssociate Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
\nUniversit\u00e0 di Genova, Italy<\/p>\n

Henryk Baran
\nProfessor of Russian Literature
\nUniversity at Albany, SUNY
\nAlbany, NY 12222<\/p>\n

Dr. Rolf Hellebust
\nAssociate Professor in Russian Studies
\nUniversity of Nottingham, UK<\/p>\n

Andrea Romano
\nAssociate Professor of Contemporary History
\nUniversita’ di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy<\/p>\n

Dr. David White
\nLecturer in Politics
\nCentre for Russian and East European Studies
\nUniversity of Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Marko Snoj,
\nHead of the Fran Ramov\u0161 Institute of the Slovene Language<\/p>\n

Lyubov Kiseleva,
\nProfessor of Russian Literature,
\nUniversity of Tartu, Estonia,
\nMember of IAH (MAG)<\/p>\n

Ostap Hawaleshka, C.M. (Order of Canada), D.Sc.(Hon), M.Eng., P.Eng.
\nEmeritus Professor (Industrial Engineering), University of Manitoba
\nHonorary Consul of Ukraine in Manitoba, Canada<\/p>\n

Dr Olaf Mertelsmann,
\nAssociate Professor in Contemporary History,
\nUniversity of Tartu, Estonia<\/p>\n

Stuart Goldberg
\nAssistant Professor of Russian
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology
\nAtlanta, GA, USA<\/p>\n

Jaroslav Rozumnyj Ph.D.
\nProfessor (retired)
\nUniversity of Manitoba, Canada
\nHonorary Professor
\nNational University \u2018Kyiv-Mohyla Academy\u2019 (Ukraine)<\/p>\n

Gabor Klaniczay,
\nProfessor, Central European University,
\nBudapest<\/p>\n

David Shepherd (MA Oxon, PhD Manchester)
\nProfessor of Russian
\nDirector, Humanities Research Institute
\nUniversity of Sheffield<\/p>\n

Prof. Natalia Pylypiuk, PhD
\nPresident of the Canadian Association of Slavists (2000–04),
\nModern Languages & Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Johanna Bockman
\nKluge Fellow, Library of Congress
\nAssistant Professor of Sociology, George Mason University
\nFairfax, VA<\/p>\n

Professor J\u00f6rg Baberowski,
\nHumboldt University Berlin<\/p>\n

Dr Harold Shukman,
\nEmeritus Fellow, St Antony’s Fellow,
\nOxford University.<\/p>\n

Dr. Samuel Niedermann
\nGeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam<\/p>\n

Manuel Ebert,
\nBSc Cognitive Science,
\nFellow of the German National
\nAcademic Foundation.<\/p>\n

Sue-Ann Harding MA, BA, B.Mus, Dip.Ed, A.Mus.A
\nUniversity of Manchester<\/p>\n

John Schillinger
\nEmeritus Prof. of Russian
\nAmerican University, Washington, DC
\nPast President AATSEEL (American Assn. of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)<\/p>\n

Robert A. Rothstein
\nWalter Raleigh Amesbury, Jr., and Cecile Dudley Amesbury Professor of Polish Language, Literature and Culture
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
\nSecretary-Treasurer, American Committee of Slavists<\/p>\n

Professor Julian Cooper
\nCentre for Russian and East European Studies
\nUniversity of Birmingham
\nBirmingham, UK<\/p>\n

Natalia Gorbanevskaya
\nPhilologist
\nDoctor honoris causa of Marie Lublin-Slodewska University, Lublin
\nFounder and editor of the \u2018Chronicle of Current Events\u2019<\/p>\n

Prof. Kevin Tuite
\nDept of Anthropology
\nUniversite de Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n

Karen Hewitt,
\nHonorary Professor, University of Perm,
\nAcademic Exchange Officer for the St Antony’s Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre,
\nTutor in Literature, Oxford University<\/p>\n

Dr Sarah Young
\nLecturer in Russian
\nSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies
\nUniversity College London, UK<\/p>\n

Jonathan Abraham
\nEuropean University of St Petersburg<\/p>\n

Kerstin Schulz
\nEuropean University of St Petersburg<\/p>\n

Olga Blyumin
\nEuropean University of St Petersburg<\/p>\n

Zoya Appel
\nEuropean University of St Petersburg<\/p>\n

Jarlath McGuckin
\nEuropean University of St Petersburg<\/p>\n

Adele Barker
\nProfessor, Russian Studies
\nUniversity of Arizona<\/p>\n

Dr. Jenny Leigh Smith
\nAssistant Professor of History
\nGeorgia Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

Jehanne Gheith
\nAssociate Professor and Chair, Slavic and Eurasian Studies
\nCo-Director, International Comparative Studies
\nDuke University, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Hubertus Jahn
\nClare College, Cambridge
\nChair, Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies
\nUniversity of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Khatuna Gvaradze
\nSlavonic Department
\nUniversity of Cambridge, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Susan Morrissey
\nSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies
\nUniversity College London, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Philip Cavendish
\nSenior Lecturer in Russian Literature and Film
\nSSEES\/UCL<\/p>\n

Prof. Iryna Bondarevska, Doctor Nauk,
\nProfessor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
\nNational University of \u2018 Kyiv-Mohyla Academy \u2018
\nKyiv , Ukraine<\/p>\n

Dr. Jenny Kaminer
\nLecturer, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
\nUniversity of Sheffield<\/p>\n

Kimberly Marten
\nProfessor and Chair
\nDepartment of Political Science
\nBarnard College, Columbia University, NY, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Claudine Potvin
\nModern Languages & Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Isobel Grundy, D.Phil.
\nFellow of the Royal Society of Canada<\/p>\n

Tomas Venclova
\nProfessor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale, USA\u2028University,
\nDoctor honoris causa of Lublin, Krakow and Torun Universities
\nWinner of the prize \u2018Baltic Star\u2019 (St. Petersburg, 2008)<\/p>\n

Robert Chandler,
\nPoet and Translator<\/p>\n

Norman M. Naimark
\nRobert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies
\nStanford University, USA<\/p>\n

Philip G. Cerny, PhD
\nProfessor of Global Affairs
\nRutgers University, USA
\nProfessor Emeritus of Government
\nUniversity of Manchester
\nManchester, United Kingdom<\/p>\n

Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science
\nRutgers University-Newark, USA<\/p>\n

Prof. Jeffrey Brooks
\nProfessor of Russian History
\nThe Johns Hopkins University
\nBaltimore, USA<\/p>\n

Grace Morsberger
\nPhD Slavic Languages and Literatures,
\nUC Berkeley, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Catherine Andreyev,
\nChrist Church, Oxford<\/p>\n

Irene Sywenky, PhD
\nGraduate Coordinator
\nAssistant Professor
\nComparative Literature \/ Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada<\/p>\n

Dr. Katja Richters
\nResearcher
\nSchool of Slavonic & East European Studies
\nUniversity of London, UK<\/p>\n

Brian Gold, (M.A. Harvard)
\nProfessor, Dept. of History & Classics
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Dr Rachel Platonov
\nLecturer in Russian Studies
\nUniversity of Manchester, UK<\/p>\n

David Holloway
\nRaymond A. Spruance Professor in International History
\nStanford University<\/p>\n

Victor M. Pergamenshchik
\nProfessor, Ph. D and Dr. Sci.<\/p>\n

Dmitri Glinski
\nAdjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science Department \/
\nLecturer, School of Continuing Education
\nColumbia University<\/p>\n

Boris Kolonitskii
\nSenior research fellow,
\nSt. Petersburg Institute of history,
\nRussian Academy of Sciences
\nProfessor, European University in St.-Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Marian Schwartz, M.A.
\nPast President, American Literary Translators Association<\/p>\n

Cathy Popkin
\nJesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities
\nProfessor of Russian
\nColumbia University<\/p>\n

Tom Priestly
\nProf. Emeritus
\nModern Languages & Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta<\/p>\n

Stanley Mitchell,
\nEmeritus Professor of Aesthetics,
\nUniversity of Derby,
\nHonorary Senior Research Fellow,
\nUniversity College, London<\/p>\n

Otto Boele
\nAssociate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages
\nUniversity of Leiden<\/p>\n

Alexander Zholkovsky,
\nProfessor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature,
\nUniversity of Southern California (Los Angeles)<\/p>\n

Mark Conliffe (PhD),
\nAssociate Professor of Russian
\nWillamette University
\nSalem, Oregon, USA<\/p>\n

Olga Maiorova
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nthe University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy,
\nDirector of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University;
\nAnn Whitney Olin Professor and Chair of the Slavic Department, Barnard College;
\nPast-President of AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages).<\/p>\n

Benjamin Nathans
\nRonald S. Lauder Associate Professor
\nDepartment of History
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Joshua Rubenstein
\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
\nHarvard University, USA<\/p>\n

Cynthia Simmons
\nProfessor of Slavic Studies
\nBoston College
\nChestnut Hill, USA<\/p>\n

Jane Costlow
\nProfessor of Russian
\nBates College, Lewiston, Maine<\/p>\n

Grzegorz Franczak, PhD.
\nLecturer at the University of Milan<\/p>\n

Dr. Yuri Corrigan
\nVisiting Lecturer
\nWellesley College<\/p>\n

Dr. Leonid Livak,
\nAssociate professor
\nDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/p>\n

Jekaterina Shulga MA
\nPhD candidate
\nUniversity College London<\/p>\n

Helena Goscilo
\nProfessor of Slavic
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Alexandra Polivanova
\nSakharov Fellow
\nDavis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
\nHarvard University<\/p>\n

Patricia Herlihy Ph.D. Professor Emerita, Brown University
\nLouise Wyant Professor of the College
\nEmmanuel College
\nBoston, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n

Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
\nAssistant Professor
\nDepartment of Political Science Department and International Studies Program
\nMiami University<\/p>\n

Dr Miriam Dobson
\nUniversity of Sheffield<\/p>\n

Andreas Umland, M. Phil. (Oxford), Dr. phil. (FU Berlin),
\nResearch Fellow at The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt,
\nBavaria, Germany<\/p>\n

Alexander Yanov,
\nProf. of Russian history,
\nCity University of New York<\/p>\n

Robert Wilcocks
\nProfessor Emeritus
\nUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.<\/p>\n

Robert Romanchuk, PhD
\nAssociate Professor of Slavic
\nDepartment of Modern Languages
\nFlorida State University, USA
\nCo-Editor, Polata Knigopisnaia<\/p>\n

Kevin M. F. Platt
\nChair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania
\nPhiladelphia, USA<\/p>\n

Dr. Erika Wolf
\nSenior Lecturer
\nProgramme in Art History and Theory
\nDepartment of History,
\nUniversity of Otago<\/p>\n

Hugh McLean
\nProfessor Emeritus of Russian Literature,
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/p>\n

David Powelstock,
\nChair, Russian and East European Studies
\nBrandeis University<\/p>\n

Dr Marja J\u00e4nis,
\nSenior Researcher,
\nDeparment of Foreign Languages and Translation Studies,
\nUniversity of Joensuu, Finland.<\/p>\n

Helen Dunmore, FRSL
\nNovelist and independent scholar<\/p>\n

Ivor A Stodolsky
\nResearcher, Independent Curator<\/p>\n

Dr Jacob Edmond
\nSenior Lecturer
\nDepartment of English,
\nUniversity of Otago, New Zealand<\/p>\n

Ray Thomas
\nHonorary Research Fellow
\nFaculty of Social Sciences
\nOpen University, England<\/p>\n

Dr. Stefan Rohdewald
\nLehrstuhl fur Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Osteuropas und seiner Kulturen
\nUniversitaet Passau<\/p>\n

Stephen M. Norris
\nAssociate Professor of History
\nDirector of Film Studies
\nMiami University<\/p>\n

Michael Khodarkovsky
\nProfessor of History
\nMember of the Board of Directors of the American Slavic Association (AAASS)<\/p>\n

Lucyna Gebert,
\nProfessor of Slavic Linguistics,
\nUniversity of Rome \u2018La Sapienza\u2019,
\nItaly<\/p>\n

Anthony Anemone
\nChair & Associate Provost of Foreign Languages
\nThe New School, NY, USA<\/p>\n

Valerie Sperling
\nAssociate Professor of Government and International Relations
\nClark University
\nWorcester, MA, USA<\/p>\n

Tore Hattermann
\nPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
\nTelegraphenberg A62, 14473 Potsdam, Germany<\/p>\n

Gerald Pirog, Ph. D.
\nAssociate Professor Program Director
\nProgram in Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures
\nRutgers the State University of New Jersey<\/p>\n

Pari Gupta
\nPhD student, City University London<\/p>\n

Jeremy Putley, BA FCCA FSI<\/p>\n

Massimo Verdicchio
\nProfessor of Italian and Comparative Literature
\nUniversity of Alberta
\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Rainer Kind
\nProfessor at Free University of Berlin
\nFellow of American Geophysical Union<\/p>\n

Benjamin Sutcliffe,
\nAssistant Professor of Russian,
\nMiami University, UK<\/p>\n

Dr. Zina Gimpelevich, Professor of Russian,
\nUniversity of Waterloo, Canada
\nPresident, Canadian Association of Slavists
\nPresident, Belarusan Institute of Arts & Sciences, Canada (BINiM)<\/p>\n

Dr Liisa Byckling
\nUniversity of Helsinki, Finland
\nVisiting Scholar
\nWolfson College
\nUniversity of Oxford<\/p>\n

Dr Rebecca Edwards
\nDepartment of History
\nSwansea University, UK<\/p>\n

Dr Rachel Bowen
\nBeacon for Wales Office
\nPublic Relations and Communications Division
\nCardiff University<\/p>\n

Dr Rafal Pankowski,
\n‘Never Again’ Association and Collegium Civitas,
\nWarsaw<\/p>\n

Dr. Anne O. Fisher
\nNEH Collaborative Research Grant, Spring 2009
\nResearch Associate, Department of German and Russian, Williams College<\/p>\n

Dr. Deborah A. Martinsen
\nAssociate Dean of Alumni Education
\nAdj. Associate Professor of Slavic
\nColumbia University
\nPresident, International Dostoevsky Society
\nExecutive Secretary, North American Dostoevsky Society<\/p>\n

Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja
\nProjektleiterin Osteuropa
\nLehrstuhl f\u00fcr Vergleichende Verm\u00f6genskultur
\nSigmund Freud PrivatUniversit\u00e4t Wien, Austria;
\nHessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
\nFrankfurt\/Main, Germany<\/p>\n

Kenneth Lantz
\nProfessor Emeritus
\nDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nUniversity of Toronto
\nToronto, Canada<\/p>\n

Prof. John Jaworsky
\nDepartment of Political Science
\nUniversity of Waterloo
\nWaterloo, ON, Canada<\/p>\n

Professor Terry Cox, BA PhD
\nProfessor of Central and East European Studies
\nPresident of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies
\nDepartment of Central and East European Studies
\nUniversity of Glasgow<\/p>\n

Dr Julie Curtis,
\nM.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.),
\nUniversity Lecturer in Russian and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford<\/p>\n

Dr Stephen Lovell,
\nKing\u2019s College London<\/p>\n

Dr. Martha Merritt
\nAssociate Dean for International Education
\nThe University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Sasha Dugdale,
\nRussian translator<\/p>\n

Bohdan Rubchak
\nProfessor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
\nUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
\nUkrainian President’s medal of the third degree for contributions to Ukrainian culture in the United Sates<\/p>\n

Stefanie Schiffer, MA,
\nExecutive Director European Exchange, Berlin
\nMember of Board \u2018Human Rights in Belarus\u2019, Berlin<\/p>\n

Martha W. Hickey
\nDirector of International Studies, Portland State University
\nAssoc. Prof. of Russian<\/p>\n

Felix Ackermann PhD,
\nDirector of the support programme \u2018Geschichtswerkstatt Europa\u2019,
\nInstitute for applied history, Frankfurt (Oder)<\/p>\n

David Gadsby
\nAssistant Director
\nCenter for Heritage Resource Studies
\nUniversity of Maryland<\/p>\n

Carol Apollonio
\nAssociate Professor of the Practice of Russian
\nDuke University<\/p>\n

Dr. Joseph Peschio
\nAssistant Professor of Russian
\nCoordinator, Slavic Languages Program
\nChair, Russian and East European Studies Certificate Program
\nUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee<\/p>\n

Catherine Wanner
\nAssociate Professor
\nof History and Anthropology
\n108 Weaver Building
\nThe Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n

Dr. Andrij Hornjatkevyc
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies [and]
\nCanadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Roman Utkin, M.A.
\nIndependent scholar, Connecticut, USA.<\/p>\n

Karen Dawisha
\nDirector, Havighurst Center for Russian and East European Studies
\nMiami University
\nOxford Ohio USA<\/p>\n

Dr. Nina Balz
\nBayerische Staatsbibliothek
\nAbt. Bestandsaufbau\/Erschlie\u00dfung
\nRedaktion ZfBB und BFB
\nLudwigstra\u00dfe 16
\nD-80539 M\u00fcnchen<\/p>\n

Anna Reid, MA
\nUniversity of London<\/p>\n

Dr Ana\u00efs MARIN (Sciences Po Paris), Research Fellow at the Helsinki
\nCollegium for Advanced Studies (Finland)<\/p>\n

Dr Carol Adlam
\nSenior Lecturer in Russian
\nHead of Russian
\nDepartment of Modern Languages
\nUniversity of Exeter<\/p>\n

Ksenia Poloektova,
\nLady Davis post-doctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.<\/p>\n

Laura Quercioli Mincer
\nLecturer, Jewish History and Culture in the Slavic Countries, University of Rome \u2018La Sapienza\u2019<\/p>\n

Christopher Lash, PhD candidate in History
\nManchester University, UK<\/p>\n

Kathryn Mathe
\nInformation Officer, OSA Archivum,
\nBudapest, Hungary<\/p>\n

Robert Romanchuk, PhD
\nAssociate Professor of Slavic
\nDepartment of Modern Languages
\nFlorida State University, USA<\/p>\n

Dr. Patty A. Gray,
\nLecturer, Department of Anthropology,
\nNational University of Ireland Maynooth<\/p>\n

Adrian Ivakhiv, Ph.D.
\nAssociate Professor, University of Vermont, USA<\/p>\n

Masha Perovic, MA
\nSustainable Environmental Management<\/p>\n

John Kampfner
\nDirector, Index on Censorship<\/p>\n

Dr Ruth Coates, University of Bristol, Department of Russian Studies (BA Mod Langs, Bristol; DPhil Queen’s College, Oxford)<\/p>\n

Alexander J. Motyl,
\nProfessor of Political Science
\nRutgers University-Newark, USA<\/p>\n

Catherine Crowther
\nSociety of Analytical Psychology (SAP): Chair of Training Committee International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP): Convener of training programme in analytical psychology in Russia and Liaison Officer for St Petersburg Developing Group<\/p>\n

Dr. Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
\nDepartment of Linguistics
\nCornell University<\/p>\n

Dr Stephanie Palmer
\nLecturer in Law
\nUniversity of Cambridge<\/p>\n

Maureen Tighe-Brown, M.A., M.S.N.
\nDoctoral candidate in European history
\nDepartment of History,
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh, PA, USA<\/p>\n

Dr Claudine Potvin
\nModern Languages & Cultural Studies
\nUniversity of Alberta
\n200 Arts Building
\nEdmonton, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Dr. Emily Johnson
\nAssociate Professor
\nDept. of Modern Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
\nUniversity of Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Jerry Katsell
\nIndependent Scholar
\nDel Mar, CA, USA<\/p>\n

Dr. G\u00e1bor T. Rittersporn
\nResearch Director
\nCentre National de la
\nRecherches Scientifique
\nParis<\/p>\n

Ronald D. LeBlanc
\nProfessor of Russian and Humanities
\nDepartment of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
\nMurkland Hall
\nUniversity of New Hampshire<\/p>\n

Vladimir Padunov
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nAssociate Director, Film Studies Program
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Anne Lounsbery,
\nAssociate Professor of Russian Literature and Director of Graduate Study, New York University<\/p>\n

Christina Kramer,
\nProfessor and Chair
\nUniversity of Kiril i Metodi, Skopje, Macedonia<\/p>\n

Jaroslav Rozumnyj Ph.D.
\nProfessor (retired)
\nUniversity of Manitoba, Canada
\nHonorary Professor
\nNational University \u2018Kyiv-Mohyla Academy\u2019 (Ukraine)<\/p>\n

Matthew Evangelista
\nProfessor and Chair
\nDepartment of Government
\nCornell University<\/p>\n

James Richter
\nProfessor of Politics
\nBates College
\nLewiston, Maine<\/p>\n

Martin Dewhirst,
\nHonorary Research Fellow,
\nDepartment of Slavonic Studies,
\nUniversity of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Inna Shtakser,
\nVisiting Assistant Professor,
\nDalhousie University, Canada<\/p>\n

Alexa von Winning,
\nStudent, University of T\u00fcbingen<\/p>\n

Jan Plamper, Ph.D.
\nMax Planck Institute for Human Development
\nLentzeallee 94
\n14195 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

Helen Petrovsky
\nSenior research associate,
\nInstitute of Philosophy,
\nRussian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

Dr Neil Robinson,
\nSenior Lecturer in Politics,
\nDepartment of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick, Ireland<\/p>\n

Giovanna Brogi
\nProfessor
\nUniversity of Milan<\/p>\n

Julie Draskoczy
\nMA, University of Pittsburgh<\/p>\n

Dr. Richard Buchner,
\nZeithistoriker, D 14165 BERLIN<\/p>\n

Rossen Djagalov,
\nPhD candidate, Yale University<\/p>\n

Alberto Masoero
\nProfessor of Russian History
\nUniversity of Venice<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Karsten Br\u00fcggemann
\nTallinn University
\nInstitute of History<\/p>\n

Prof. Iryna Bondarevska,
\nProfessor of Philosophy and Aesthetics,
\nNational University of \u2018 Kyiv-Mohyla Academy \u2018
\nKyiv, Ukraine<\/p>\n

Dr. Olga Meerson
\nAssociate Professor of Russian
\nGeorgetown University
\nWashington, DC<\/p>\n

Dr. Jenny Kaminer
\nLecturer, Department of Russian & Slavonic Studies
\nUniversity of Sheffield<\/p>\n

Professor Natalia Pervukhina-Kamyshnikova
\nDepartment of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures
\nUniversity of Tennessee
\nKnoxville<\/p>\n

Yulia Spytska
\nMA International Relations Research Student
\nUniversity of Essex, UK<\/p>\n

Philippe Frison,
\nStrasbourg (France), translator.<\/p>\n

Lyudmyla Volynets
\nFree University of Berlin<\/p>\n

Petra Hroch,
\nUniversity of Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n

Professor Frances Millard,
\nDepartment of Government,
\nUniversity of Essex<\/p>\n

Dmitrii Kozlov
\nPomorskii gosudarstvennyi universitet
\nArchangelsk, Russia<\/p>\n

Flora Roberts,
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/p>\n

Kari Kaunismaa, MSS
\nSoiskatel doktorskoi stupen
\nPaimio, Finland<\/p>\n

Dr Stefanie Ortmann,
\nLondon School of Economics<\/p>\n

Denis Kosygin,
\nMathematician,
\nNew York University, USA<\/p>\n

Lara Weibgen
\nPh.D. candidate, Yale University<\/p>\n

Lauren Kaminsky
\nAssociate Faculty, New York University
\nFulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow<\/p>\n

Mariana Ivanova Markova
\nPhC Anthropology Department
\nUniversity of Washington<\/p>\n

Andrew Janco,
\nPh.D. Candidate, University of Chicago<\/p>\n

Dr. Gail Faurschou
\nDepartment of Sociology
\nUniversity of Alberta,
\nCanada<\/p>\n

Olga Livshin
\nM.A., Ph.D. Candidate,
\nUniversity of Alaska Anchorage<\/p>\n

Bohdan Rubchak
\nProfessor Emeritus of Slavic and Comparative Literatures
\nUniversity of Illinois at Chicago<\/p>\n

Julia Herzberg, Doctoral Student, Department of History at Bielefeld
\nUniversity (Germany)<\/p>\n

Vera Shibanova
\nJacob-Burckhardtstr. 13
\n78464 Konstanz<\/p>\n

Benjamin H. Loring
\nPostdoctoral Fellow in Central Asian Affairs
\nCenter for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)
\nEdmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
\nGeorgetown University<\/p>\n

Svitlana Krys,
\nPhD Candidate, University of Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n

Yulia Spytska
\nMA International Relations Research Student
\nUniversity of Essex<\/p>\n

Martin Beisswenger
\nPhD Candidate
\nDepartment of History
\nUniversity of Notre Dame
\nUSA<\/p>\n

Margaret Samu
\nPh.D. Candidate in Art History
\nInstitute of Fine Arts, New York University<\/p>\n

Lisa Min
\nUT Austin<\/p>\n

Benjamin J. Beresford, MA
\nBryn Mawr College<\/p>\n

Martin Malek
\nPolitical scientist
\nVienna, Austria<\/p>\n

Dr. Lorenz Kaehler, M.A.
\nGermany<\/p>\n

Dr. Richard Buchner (Zeithistoriker)
\n14165 Berlin, Camphausenstra\u00dfe 44 D.
\nGermany<\/p>\n

Steven A. Barnes, Ph.D.
\nAssistant Professor of History,
\nProject Director and Lead Historian
\nGeorge Mason University, VA, USA<\/p>\n

Michael J. Mikos,
\nProfessor of Slavic Languages,
\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/p>\n

Simon Ertz, \u041c.\u0410.,
\nVisiting Fellow, Dept. of History, Moscow State University<\/p>\n

Friederike Otto
\nPotsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research<\/p>\n

Ralph Lindheim
\nProfessor Emeritus
\nDept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/p>\n

Sergei Kan
\nProfessor of Anthroppology
\nDartmouth College<\/p>\n

Arnold McMillin
\nEmeritus Professor,
\nLondon University<\/p>\n

Dina Gusejnova
\nPhD Candidate in History
\nPeterhouse, Cambridge<\/p>\n

Tony Swift,
\nSenior Lecturer in History,
\nUniversity of Essex<\/p>\n

Dr Olga Tutubalina
\nScott Polar Research Institute
\nSenior Researcher
\nLaboratory of Aerospace Methods,
\nFaculty of Geography, Moscow State University<\/p>\n

Mark L. von Hagen
\nProfessor and Chair
\nDepartment of History
\nArizona State University<\/p>\n

Dr Alexander Etkind
\nReader in Russian Litarture and Cultural History
\nFellow of King’s College
\nCambridge University<\/p>\n

Daniel G. Prior
\nAssistant Professor, History
\nExecutive Director, Central Eurasian Studies Society
\nMiami University<\/p>\n

Bettina Nir-Vered
\nM.A. \u2013 Germany<\/p>\n

Rebecca Manley, Ph.D.
\nAssistant Professor of History
\nQueen’s University
\nKingston, Ontario<\/p>\n

Dr. Susanne Scholl
\nAustria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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