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What is the current state of Russian industry?
And why does the war now have greater support in Moscow and St. Petersburg than in the regions?
You can find out all this in the podcast! We highly recommend listening to it.
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We are pleased to announce that Doc. Adrian Brisku, Ph.D., in collaboration with Dr. Klodiana Beshku, has published a new research article in the YSU Journal of International Affairs entitled A Tale of Two States: Explaining the Divergent Outcomes of the EU Soft-Transformative Power in Albania and Georgia.
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Are you interested in international politics or American politics? Would you like to study at George Mason University in Washington? Would you like to gain practical work experience? Would you like to spend two months living an active life with young people from all over the world? The Institute of International Studies, in cooperation with the Fund for American Studies (TFAS), offers students in the bachelor's and master's programs in Area Studies a unique opportunity to participate in a summer academic internship in Washington, D.C., from May 30 to July 25, 2026.
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Four members of the Research Centre for Memory Studies (RCMS)— Tereza Juhászová, Ivana Koutníková, Ondřej Klípa, and Kateřina Králová — travelled to Washington, D.C. to take part in this year’s Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention.
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Klára Kosová, a doctoral student at the Department of Russian and East European Studies, has received the Martina Roeselová Memorial Grant, which focuses on supporting young female scientists who are mothers and helps them balance their parental responsibilities with their academic careers. In her research, Klára Kosová combines the humanities and social sciences with computational sciences and focuses on cognitive linguistics, political discourse analysis, and the issue of legitimacy crises in contemporary democracies.
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Adrian Brisku will take part in the international conference “The 1990s as a Time of Unmaking and Remaking Albania”, held in late November 2025 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The conference focuses on the political, social, and cultural transformations that shaped Albania in the 1990s and brings together leading scholars from Europe and North America.
