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The documentary D IS FOR DIVISION (2018) explores the border between Russia and Latvia. Following the film screening, we will discuss borders in Eastern European cinema and the potential for conflict in national identity formation.

Anna Schwenck, PhD candidate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, presents aspects of her submitted dissertation.

As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), is opening invitations to a new multidisciplinary research colloquium.

‘Translocality’ has become an important concept in social sciences for depicting the social and cultural representations of a globalizing world ‘from the ground’.

Russia’s present Constitution has been adopted on 12 December 1993 in a referendum.

While the globalisation discourse claims the creation of a 'borderless world' we observe the evolvement of a whole world of new and old borders within the post-soviet space with considerable effects on people living in border regions.

After almost three decades since the dissolution of the USSR, the post-Soviet borders are legitimized by bilateral treaties, in many cases demarcated on the territory and anchored in the ‘geographic imagination’ of the local populations.

At the opening of the exhibition "Transnistria Seen from Within - A Portrait by Young Photographers", Carolina Dutca, Ramin Mazur and Anton Polyakov will be talking about their photographic works and their approach to creating art.

As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), is opening invitations to a new multidisciplinary research colloquium.

In his new book The Tragedy of Property: Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State (Polity 2018), Maxim Trudolyubov uses private property as a lens to highlight current and historical features that distinguish Russia as a political culture.

The current energy market design of Ukraine is widely criticized as outdated. Ukrainian energy legislation in many aspects does not meet Ukrainian obligations under the Energy Community Treaty and the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.

Urban spaces are settings for manifestations of power but they are also laboratories for social change.

East European “urban pioneers” are actors of social change in cities from Warsaw to Vladivostok, among them those who fight for the right to the city.

After a short period of euphoria, hopes that freedom and democracy would quickly triumph in the post-Soviet world were soon thwarted – and today, many countries in the region face particular challenges.

As of the 2018 summer semester, the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is opening invitations to a new multidisciplinary research colloquium.

Autocratic rulers have different tools and strategies at their disposal to ensure the preservation of power and the longevity of their regimes.