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Spotlight 12/2025
by Irina Busygina
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Russia’s war against Ukraine has created challenges for the Russian leadership and a window of opportunity for new political elites. Young politicians from Russia’s regions are taking up federal positions in Moscow and have the prospect of becoming serious competitors to Putin’s Old Guard.
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KonKoop | DataLab Blog
by Gaëlle le Pavic
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How can a disputed border that is not marked as a fixed line on a map be researched? Instead, it represents a changing network of tangible and intangible elements. In her article, Gaëlle Le Pavic explores this question by examining the Georgian-Abkhazian dividing line and focusing on its visible and invisible dimensions. Her article appears on the KonKoop DataLab Blog, a platform for the academic exchange of ideas relating to data and methods concerning conflict and cooperation in Eastern Europe.
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With a contribution titled ‘Independence à la Ukraine’ by Andrii Portnov, the online medium dekoder is launching a new series with explainers on Ukraine in cooperation with ZOiS. In dekoder's article series (‘Gnosen’), researchers write scientifically sound explanatory texts, which offer concise and easy-to-read insights into specific topics.
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The number of nurses in Ukraine decreased by almost one-third between 2015 and 2022. Among the reasons for this fall were low pay, intense working conditions, and the abolition of workload standards. How has Ukraine’s healthcare reform become blind to the vital role of nurses?
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Classrooms have become battlegrounds in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. Education is being weaponised – to erase Ukrainian identity and rewrite the future. But not all teachers comply with the imposed Russian curriculum.
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with Arvydas Grišinas (Lithuanian Institute of History/Kaunas University of Technology), Chair: Nadja Douglas (SWP/ZOiS)
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Lithuanian volunteers play a key role in supporting Ukraine. They are motivated not only by compassion, but also by a political awareness grounded in their own country’s historical memory. This talk explores how past repression transforms empathy into civic resistance and cross-border solidarity.
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ERDAM Event | 10 July 2025, 12.00 pm | Online
with Tatiana Kasimova (Academic Bridges Lab), Vladimir Kozlov (Academic Bridges Lab), a member of OutRush team, Moderator: Tatiana Golova (ERDAM network)
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Who are the Russians fleeing repression and now rebuilding their lives in Germany? A new study sheds light on their backgrounds, aspirations, and paths to integration—and shows how they balance new beginnings with continued civic engagement across borders.
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Filmmakers Piotr Goldstein and Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki will present three short films about everyday migrant activism in Poland and then discuss some of the key issues raised by their films.
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Video interview with Beate Eschment for the Russian channel of Deutsche Welle (22/06/2025)
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Interview with Félix Krawatzek in the taz (28/05/2025)
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Radio interview with Sebastian Hoppe on WDR 5 Mittagsecho (28/05/2025)
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Links to our media coverage on current topics can be found on our website ZOiS in the media.
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