“Putinism is bigger than Putin. You can’t just defeat him on the battlefield.”
Ilya Venyavkin interviews Mikhail Suslov
Category: Blog
Smolny BB Courses Presentation (Spring 2024)
January 11 – 8:30 New York / 14:30 Berlin / 16:30 St. Petersburg
Apply Now for SBB Spring 2024 Courses
The application process for Spring 2024 courses has commenced (until January 15).
The Destruction of the Faculty Continues
“Paper”: at least 35 teachers left former Smolny college since the start of the war.
Closing Speech in Сourt by Smolny Graduate Sasha Skochilenko
Smolny graduate Sasha Skochilenko sentenced to 8 years in prison for an anti-war artistic campaign.
An Article About the Fate of Smolny College
An article by Danila Raskov and Denis Skopin about the fate of Smolny.
Experimental Feminist Poetry with Galina Rymbu
A new mini-course by the famous poet Galina Rymbu. Apply until November 14.
Russian Academy in Exile: Personal Experiences and Institutional Perspectives
October, 25, 16.00 – 17.00 CEST
A Public Talk by Ilya Kalinin at Stockholm University.
Digital Echoes: The Future Integrity of Archival Storage
Friday, October 27, 2023
Bard College Berlin K24 SR11 or Zoom (hybrid)
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CEST/GMT+2
Andrei Rodin’s talk at BCB
“When one is accustomed to speaking, it is difficult to fall silent in a single day.”
Stories of professors dismissed from universities in St. Petersburg for political reasons.