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In the middle of war, Ukraine's top university reimagines Russian Studies

Eleven years into Russia’s war, a Ukrainian university is forging ahead with an unexpected academic pursuit: launching a Russian Studies program to study the country that had imposed itself on Ukraine. “Our goal is to study Russia from different angles — its economy, its society, its elites, its foreign policy — in order to take a critical look at what Russia has done to us and the world,” said Professor Maksym Yakovliev, co-founder of the program at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, one of Ukraine’s ol

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