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🎥 Watch Now Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia @mkimmage speaks with @jillrussia and @StevenErlanger about reporting on Russia across decades of political change, from the late Soviet period to today. Now on YouTube: https://t.co/QpB1FYMd0l

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🎓 Featured Fellow @DrJadeMcGlynn, a non-resident fellow at the Kennan Institute, joins us from Ukraine. Through Dispatches, she will contribute articles and photojournalism reflecting on lived experience, memory and daily realities on the ground. https://t.co/jiId9HfNg6

🔴 The Long View: The Kennan Institute’s Founding Director Looks Back 🗓️ Join us on Thursday, December 18 at 11 AM ET for a conversation with S. Frederick Starr, the founding director of the Kennan Institute. He will discuss his new memoir Blue Skies: My Life in Many Worlds,

🔴 The Long View: Russian Freedom Lost and Found Join us on Wednesday, December 17 at 11 AM ET for a conversation with @zygaro about his new book The Dark Side of the Earth. The discussion will explore late Soviet history, questions of agency and destiny and the rise of Putin’s

🔵Dispatches: Kharkiv’s Memorial of Glory A look at how one of Kharkiv’s most symbolic sites has taken on new meaning during a time of national hardship. ✍🏼By @DrJadeMcGlynn Read now: 🔗 https://t.co/M3eNgbTEOt #KennanInstitute #Dispatches

💬 Kennan Conversations: The Russian Press and Putin Join us on Monday, December 15 at 11 AM ET for a discussion with journalists @AndreiSoldatov and @irinaborogan about their new book Our Dear Friends in Moscow. Along with @mkimmage, they will examine the evolution of the

🎥 The Long View #001 is now available on YouTube and Spotify! Micahel David Fox joins @mkimmage to discuss how historians interpret and debate the history of World War II. Watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify: 🔗 https://t.co/Z7Vk4g9XYA 🔗 https://t.co/6Z4XyVeh3z #TheLongView

🏆 Congratulations to Karl Schlögel, the 2025 recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The award recognizes his contributions to understanding Eastern Europe and Russia and his role in shaping public discussion of the region. The Kennan Institute is proud to have

🎥 The Long View #005 is now available on Youtube and Spotify! @BenjaminNathans joins @mkimmage and Maria Lipman to discuss his book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause and the evolution of the Soviet dissident movement. 🔗YouTube: https://t.co/99OgUwd1Ha 🔗Spotify:

🎥 The Long View #004 is now available on Youtube and Spotify! @MichaelOThumann and @lindakinstler join @mkimmage to discuss the role of journalism and political change in Russia, drawing on Thumann’s Eisiges Schweigen and Revanche. Watch on YouTube or listen on Spotify:

💬 Kennan Conversations: Reporting on and from Russia 🗓️Thursday, December 11 at 11 AM ET Join us for a conversation with @jillrussia, drawing on her book My Russia: What I Saw inside the Kremlin. 🎙️With @mkimmage and Stephen Erlanger. ⬇️ RSVP: https://t.co/AWibsUv0DV

🎥 The Long View #003 with Celeste Marcus is now available on YouTube and Spotify! @mkimmage and @Celestemarcus3 discuss the life and art of Chaim Soutine and the themes that shaped his work. Watch or listen here: ▶️YouTube:

🎥 Kennan Conversations: The Prospects for Peace Now available on YouTube! @PavloKlimkin, former Foreign Minister of Ukraine, and @Gottemoeller, former Deputy Secretary of NATO, discuss the emerging peace plan and the positions of Ukraine, Europe, the United States and Russia.

With a proposed normalization of economic relations between the U.S. and Russia figuring in the ongoing negotiations, this timely conversation with @Charles_Hecker and @ThaneGustafson reviews the story of Western businesses in Russia in the 90s. https://t.co/t2UkhrQziZ

🔴 The Long View Episode #005 with @BenjaminNathans Join us for a conversation about his book: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause Wednesday, December 3 at 11 AM ET Hosted by Maria Lipman and @mkimmage RSVP: https://t.co/YLUsOsrDBr #KennanInstitute #TheLongView

🔴 The Long View Episode #004 Join us on Monday, December 1 for a conversation with @MichaelOThumann and @lindakinstler on the themes of Eisiges Schweigen and Revanche. With @mkimmage RSVP: https://t.co/JRuSTYKM2P #KennanInstitute #TheLongView

💬 Kennan Conversations: The Prospects for Peace 🗓️Join us on Wednesday, November 26 at 11 AM ET @PavloKlimkin and @Gottemoeller will discuss the emerging peace plan and the positions of Ukraine, Europe, the United States and Russia. Moderated by @mkimmage RSVP NOW ⬇️

💬 Join us for an in-person conversation with Ivan Kurilla on his new book Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American–Russian Relations. 📚 The book traces more than three centuries of engagement between Russia and the United States, from cooperation to rivalry.