Russia’s war on Ukraine: webinar
Recording of a webinar with an expert panel discussing key questions surrounding the war and its implications for Ukraine and Russia, and for wider European and global peace.
Thursday Video: Ruth McKenna
The Friday Video has been rebranded as the Thursday video. It’s still the same exciting tasters of the ground-breaking research taking place at the University of Glasgow – just the day earlier. This week’s video is from Ruth McKenna who discusses the impact of perceptions of Russia on Russian-speaking immigrants in Scotland. Ruth also wrote…
Ukraine, Kremlin propaganda and the Cold War trap
Analysis of media and social media stories in Russian and Ukraine..
The impact of perceptions of Russia upon Russian-speaking migrant communities in the UK
Ruth McKenna introduces her PhD entitled ‘Imagining Russia in British political, media and popular discourses post-1999: the impact upon Russian-speaking migrant integration in the UK’.
Film and the struggle for LGBT rights
Ahead of the series of events about LGBT lives in Russia and Lithuania, Marc David Jacobs of Edinburgh Film Guild New Cinema, discusses the way in which Russian and Lithuanian filmmakers have explored the experiences and challenges LGBT communities in Russia and Lithuania. This month, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, there is to be a series entitled LGBT…
Event series: LGBT lives in Russia and Lithuania, 11-23 February 2014
A programme of screenings and talks presents a close glimpse into the state of LGBT cinema and culture in Russia and Lithuania today.
EVENT: LGBT equality and the geopolitics of human rights: insights from Russia
The Gender and Sexualities Forum, in association with Central and East European Studies and the Glasgow Human Rights Network, has announced the event: ‘LGBT equality and the geopolitics of human rights: insights from Russia’.
Are some powers more equal than others?
Introduction to a research project by Professor Stephen White focusing on the relationship between social inequality and political stability in China and Russia.