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“Governing Nizhny Novgorod: Boris Nemtsov as a Regional Leader,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, appears as a chapter in Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance.

Nemtsov, a documentary about a vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime, will be screened on Tuesday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Bradford Aud., KJ. A discussion with Nemtsov's friend and colleague, director Vladimir Kara-Murza, will follow.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled “The Decline of Elite Uncertainty during Authoritarian Consolidation: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin,” on Nov. 11 in Chicago.

Clark Callahan P’18, managing director of executive education custom programs at Harvard Business School recently spoke to students from two Government courses. Callahan’s talk focused on his experiences in Russia in the early 1990s working for a program whose mission was to support Russia’s transition to a market economy by training entrepreneurs and teaching the basics of how to run a business.

At the forefront of current foreign policy discussions is the relationship between the United States and Russia. The Levitt Center brought in Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of research at the Council on Foreign Affairs, to discuss that relationship. He delivered a lecture titled “U.S.-Russia Relations Under Trump and Beyond” on the past, present, and future state of U.S.-Russian relations.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera has been awarded a $49,999 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support her project, “Russian Elite Attitudes toward Conflict and the West.”

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David W. Rivera recently published an article in the journal Problems of Post-Communism (2017).

Titled “Russian elites are more expansionist, militaristic, and anti-American than at any point since 1993,” an analysis published in the Washington Post’s blog, The Monkey Cage, by Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera affirms the article’s title.  The July 22 piece was written by Rivera with students in her Levitt Research Group – James Bryan ’16, Emma Raynor ’18, and Hunter Sobczak ’17.

As one of the few surveys of Russian elites - perhaps the only publicly available survey -  conducted since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, the newly released Hamilton College Levitt Poll, titled The Russian Elite 2016, represents a unique resource. Survey data on whether Russian elites support the more muscular foreign policy that has been pursued during Vladimir Putin’s third presidential term (2012-present) have been largely unavailable–until now. 

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera recently published an article titled “Is Russia Too Unique to Learn from Abroad? Elite Attitudes on Foreign Borrowing and the West, 1993-2012” in Sravnitel’naya politika (Comparative Politics).