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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.

Boris and Marina are members of a once-proud shepherd family in the Altai Mountains whose livelihood was destroyed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup – surely the most important event in international sport – is scheduled to start in Russia on 14 June.

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality.

MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine is a program undertaken by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and its partners.

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.

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.

The Arctic is a little-known region in the public perception, but it is by no means unresearched.

Political scientist Mark Beissinger from Princeton University explores the emergence and outcome of urban civic revolts as a reflection of the struggle between regimes and oppositions for control over public space. This keynote lecture is part of the ZOiS Conference 2018 "Contested Spaces".

The notion of space has become more prominent across the social sciences in recent years. Contestation, by comparison, has always been a central issue. Our specific regional focus on Eastern Europe allows us to link the discussions about space and contestation. What kind of spaces are contested, and by whom?

We show excerpts from the film "Russia as Phantasma", which deals with life and death in a Russian provincial town. Subsequently, we discuss with producer Nadya Bakuradze what concerns the Russian population away from the capital before the presidential elections.