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Former State and Defense Department experts will discuss the ongoing conflict.
The Attack on Ukraine
Faculty and staff experts and students talk with Dartmouth News about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “It is an unconscionable, awful act of senseless aggression. I feel grief, anger, shame, sorrow, fear, anxiety, and guilt. I stand with Ukraine,” says senior lecturer Svetlana Grushina.
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Scores of protesters, many holding signs, took to the Green on March 4 to rally support for Ukraine as deadly attacks continued following the Russian invasion last month. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
Dartmouth News
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Co-Teaching a Class on Israel and Palestine
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Visiting Professor of Government Bernard Avishai writes about the benefits of co-teaching a course with Ezzedine Fishere, a senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies. “We hoped our students would find the symmetry stimulating,” Avishai writes.
The New Yorker
Hanover High Drama Club to Stage Play About Ukrainian Teens During Invasion
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Professors Victoria Somoff and Lada Kolomiyets are mentioned for helping to bring the play I’m Fine by Ukrainian playwright Nina Zakhozhenko to Hanover High School.
Valley News
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Rivals in international politics always use misinformation and disinformation to advance their causes—and that’s especially true during wars.
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It’s a tiny phenomenon, but there is a steady trope among Christian nationalists in the U.S. of an admiration for, and to a certain extent, a conversion to Russian Orthodoxy.
New Ukrainian Language Class Celebrates a Milestone
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Undaunted by war, Dartmouth and Ukrainian students share poetry and music.
Vox Populi: Ukrainian Character, Russian Folly
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Determination, and good humor, are embedded in everyday Ukrainians.
The Russian Red Line Washington Won’t Cross—Yet
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In a story about Ukraine’s need for long-range missiles to regain Crimea, Dickey Center Postdoctoral Fellow Polina Beliakova says, “Not providing better weapons would basically throw Ukraine under the bus in slow motion.”
The Atlantic
How Ukrainian Artists Are Grappling With War
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Leslie Center Fellow Hanna Leliv is featured in a story about how she is translating poems and co-curating war posters “to spread the word and to give English voice to Ukrainian poets and writers.”
Boston Globe
So What’s the Deal With Ukraine’s Spring Offensive?
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Polina Beliakova, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dickey Center, discusses some of the challenges facing Ukraine, including unit cohesion and staving off potential calls to negotiate with Russia.
Vox
The Surprising Success of U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine
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Polina Beliakova, a Dickey Center postdoctoral fellow, co-authors an analysis that says the Russian invasion “galvanized Ukraine’s leadership to discard parochial concerns and implement a series of reforms and battlefield innovations.”
Foreign Affairs