January 5, 2024January 22, 2024Blog “Putinism is bigger than Putin. You can’t just defeat him on the battlefield.” Ilya Venyavkin interviews Mikhail Suslov
January 4, 2024January 12, 2024Blog Smolny BB Courses Presentation (Spring 2024) January 11 – 8:30 New York / 14:30 Berlin / 16:30 St. Petersburg
December 16, 2023January 12, 2024Blog Apply Now for SBB Spring 2024 Courses The application process for Spring 2024 courses has commenced (until January 15).
November 23, 2023November 23, 2023Blog The Destruction of the Faculty Continues “Paper”: at least 35 teachers left former Smolny college since the start of the war.
November 16, 2023November 23, 2023Blog 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.
October 25, 2023October 30, 2023Blog An Article About the Fate of Smolny College An article by Danila Raskov and Denis Skopin about the fate of Smolny.
October 24, 2023October 24, 2023Blog Experimental Feminist Poetry with Galina Rymbu A new mini-course by the famous poet Galina Rymbu. Apply until November 14.
October 23, 2023October 24, 2023Blog 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.
October 21, 2023October 21, 2023Blog 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
October 18, 2023October 23, 2023Blog “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.