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TMT Lecture Series

The TMT Lecture Series is a joint project between The Moscow Times and top global universities that sees leading Russian journalists forced to emigrate after the invasion of Ukraine give lectures about what is going on inside Russia.

  • University of Cambridge
  • UCL University College London
  • Kings College London
  • Universirty of Amsterdam
  • GW University
  • Tufts
  • Maastricht University
  • Amherst College
  • Universiteit Leiden
  • University of Bologna
  • The Hague University of Applied Sciences
  • Masaryk University

Global Sanctions and Russia: Lessons for International Business

Nabi Abdullaev, a partner for Russia & Former Soviet Union at Control Risks, looks at the impact of Western sanctions on businesses.
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Queerness as Extremism: The Assault on LGBTQ+ Rights in Russia

Anthropologist Olga Doletskaya contextualizes the anti-LGBTQ+ crackdown and explains what the extremist designation means for Russia's LGBTQ+ community...
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Presidential Elections in Russia: Past, Present, Putin

Elections in Russia have since become a farce, a kind of political theatre or circus that has little to do with democracy. How did this come about?
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Two Years of War and the Future of Exiled Russian Journalism

Revisit The Moscow Times' sold-out event dedicated to exploring the future of Russian journalism in exile — and the future of the war itself.
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Impact from Russian Sanctions on the Global Economy and Energy Industry

Dmitry Zhdannikov explains how Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Western sanctions on Moscow have resulted in a major shift in global energy flows and political...
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Russian Independent Journalism and Society Amid the Backdrop of War

Sonya Groysman and Olga Churakova discuss how Russia's “foreign agent” status is used to marginalize people and makes it impossible for a full-time...
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The Russian Media: Lessons From the 1990s – Nataliya Rostova

Nataliya Rostova is one of the leading researchers on Russian media. In her lecture "The Russian Media: Lessons of the 1990s," Rostova discusses how the...
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Gender Imbalance and Toxic Masculinity in Wartime Russia – Samantha Berkhead

Samantha Berkhead is the senior editor for The Moscow Times. She joined The Moscow Times in 2019 and lived in Russia from that year until the invasion...
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Inside Putin’s Propaganda Mirror Chamber: How Has Russia Lost the Free Press? – Mikhail Fishman

Mikhail Fishman, an anchor for the independent TV Rain news channel and researcher of the history of Russian journalism, discusses the history of press...
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The Gulag Legacy. Memory of Stalinism in Today’s Russia – Nikolai Epplée

Nikolai Epplée is a journalist, author, and independent researcher working on memorial culture and Soviet state terror. This lecture at Leiden...
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Russian Civil Society and Media in an Era of Full Censorship – Ekaterina Martynova

Ekaterina Martynova, the editor of the independent student media outlet Doxa, discusses censorship in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, anti-war sentiment...

Why Russian Journalism Doesn't Help – Maksim Solius

Maksim Solius, an editor at independent investigative media outlet iStories, talks about how freedom of speech was lost in Russia and the difficulties...

Making Putin Great (Again and Again) – Zhanna Agalakova

Russian journalist Zhanna Agalakova, who worked for state-run media for over 20 years before quitting over the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, discusses Putin's...

The Price of Lying – Alexander Gubsky

In the first lecture of a new lecture series to take place at different European universities and organized by The Moscow Times, Alexander Gubsky, publisher...
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