Viktoriya Sereda, "Region, Nation, and Beyond" Nikita Petrov, "The KGB in the Soviet Political System" Mykola Riabchuk, "Examined by War" Lilia Shevtsova, "Russia as a Global Challenge" Lena Jonson, "Art and Protest in Putin's Russia" Serhiy Kvit, "Reforming Ukr. Universities" Karen Dawisha, "Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy?" Zoran Amar, "Cinema on the Urban Edge" Nina Bunjevac, "Fatherland: A Family History" Ambassador Michael McFaul, "A New Cold War?" Volodymyr Dubovyk, "Crisis in Ukraine" "Contextualizing the Holodomor: Ukrainian Famine" Taras Koznarsky, "Shevchenko and His Readers" Zelimir Zilnik, "One Woman, One Century" Mikhail Lampolski, "Anthropology of Cultural Models"