UCL SSEES: The Post-Soviet Press Group

The Post-Soviet Press Group (PSPG) gathers every Wednesday lunchtime in term time. It provides an ideal opportunity to keep up with developments in the former USSR. Members choose an area of interest and reports are normally provided on the full range of countries: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States, Moldova, the Caucasian states and Central Asia, and on a wide range of topics, such as politics, the mass media, business, environment, NGOs and human rights. Several guest speakers are normally scheduled each year.

The PSPG is chaired by Pete Duncan of SSEES and meetings are held on Wednesdays at 1pm in Room 433, in the main SSEES building at 16 Taviton Street. Pete can be contacted on 020 7679 8762. All staff and postgraduates are warmly invited to attend these informal meetings.

Term Two

• Wednesday 18 January 2012
  Nikolay Petrov, Scholar-in-Residence, Moscow Carnegie Center
  'The Duma Elections and After'

• Wednesday 25 January 2012
  Alexander Etkind, Reader in Russian Literature and Cultural History, Cambridge University; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, will speak on the themes of his new book, Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience

• First Meeting Wednesday 5 October 2011.
  This will include a discussion of the announcement that Putin will stand for President in 2012 and of Medvedev's sacking of Kudrin.

• Wednesday 12 October 2011.
  Normal meeting.

• Wednesday 19 October 2011.
  Guest speaker: Jane Henderson
  Senior Lecturer in the Laws of Eastern Europe, School of Law, King's College London
  'Law in Politics, Politics in Law in the Russian Federation'.
  Jane is the leading Western expert on the Russian Constitution. She has just published The Constitution of the Russian Federation: A Contextual Analysis, in the Hart Publishing series 'The Constitutional Systems of the World'.

• Wednesday 2 November 2011 - No meeting, to avoid a clash with the Centre for Russian Studies seminar

  Dr Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania)
  'On the Usefulness of Beloved Tyrants: History, Social Discipline and Trauma in Russia'
  1:15pm in Room 347, SSEES

• Wednesday 9 November 2011
  No meeting because of Reading Week

• Wednesday 16 November 2011
  Normal meeting

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