“The King has a birthday today!” Russian Rap Expresses Everything One Is Not Allowed To
Propaganda, protest and resistance are three of music’s many functions. Russian music is no exception. But aside from ridiculous...
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Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding...
Where it All Starts: Domestic Violence in Russia as a Symptom of a Political Crisis
With all the media noise surrounding Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy, the international community has not paid enough attention to...
Russian-American Relations in the Trump Era: The Russian Perspective
In his inauguration speech, Donald Trump stated the United States would, “seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of...
Failed Opportunity: How America’s flawed Russian policy aided the rise of Vladimir Putin
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian citizens found themselves in a completely transformed and alien...
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable....