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United Russia party leaders celebrating Sunday evening after the Duma election.

Although vote slips a bit, United Russia retains substantial majority in Duma

On Friday, Russian voters went to the polls in the first of three days of voting to elect a new State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian Federal Assembly. The election, conducted over three days to allow more social distancing in the polling stations, concluded yesterday, and when the votes...

Oral History Project Celebrates James C. Scott and the Yale Agrarian Studies Program

The Oral History Center (OHC) of The Bancroft Library at University of California at Berkeley has announced the release of the Yale Agrarian Studies Oral History Project, a two-part series featuring the life history of James C. Scott, and shorter interviews with more than a dozen affiliates of...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin after agreeing on programs for Union State, Moscow, September 9.

As Russia & Belarus develop their Union State & hold huge military exercise, Russia goes to the polls

Last Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met in Moscow and agreed on more than two dozen programs for the Union State the two countries created in 1999. The programs are aimed at increasing the integration of the two economies and, in so...

25-plus Partners Join Forces to Address Caribbean’s Climate and Health Crisis

An unprecedented consortium of more than 25 international, U.S., and Caribbean organizations, including the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health at Yale School of Public Health, the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International...

New analysis of the costs and benefits of expanding India’s energy infrastructure

India’s power sector began a transformation in the 2000s, as tens of millions of new customers connected to the grid. The government opened up new market institutions to supply these citizens with power. Have these markets worked?

There have certainly been some growing pains. The...

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September 21, 2021, 4:00pm - Afghanistan: Where Do We Go From Here?
September 22, 2021, 12:00pm - Frank Brown' 10 M.A. | European Studies Fellows' Networks Career Conversations
September 22, 2021, 12:00pm - Panel Discussion on Events Since the Coup in Myanmar
September 22, 2021, 5:30pm - Yale-Iniciativa Proxima Mentoring Program Workshop Series - Making a Discovery: The Journey to the Leptin hormone.
September 22, 2021, 6:00pm - The Origins and Durability of Anti-Black Racial Criminalization in the United States

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