Podcasts about russian area studies

Links from the show:* Wind of Change: An American Journey in Post-Soviet Russia* Connect with Ken* Rate the show on iTunesAbout my guest:Born and raised in a suburb near Boston, Kenneth Maher had a passion for foreign languages and politics, which led him to obtain a master's degree in Russian Area Studies while simultaneously working as an intern at the U.S. Capitol. After several years traveling in the former Soviet Union, Kenneth returned to school for his M.B.A., followed by a long career as a business executive. He worked and traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and India. Kenneth paused his business career in response to the 9/11 attacks to serve as a military intelligence officer in Iraq. When not working or writing, Kenneth spends his time learning a new language (currently Italian) or enjoying a fascinating book. Wind of Change is his first book. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

Mark Schrad is a professor in the department of political science at Villanova University, over whose “Russian Area Studies” he presides as director. Professor Schrad is the author of three books: The Political Power of Bad Ideas; Vodka Politics; and, his latest work, Smashing the Liquor Machine (to which, if interested in their purchase, I'll include links below). We sip our spirits, imbibe our beers, and become giddy over the prospect of tasting an evening's dram of liquor, without ever really thinking about the history hidden behind these potent drinks. We look forward, with unsuppressable glee, to the decanting, the toasting, the clinking, and, more than anything else, the delicious imbibing to which these merry libations call us. And yet, at the bottom of your shot of vodka, your glass of gin, your cup of rum, your drop of whiskey, there mingles among the dregs a sordid tale. It's a tale of state control; extortionate taxes; the intoxication of the citizenry; the raising of revenue by immoral means; the introduction of addictive beverages to colonized peoples abroad; the response of humane “progressives”; the push toward Prohibition; and the many setbacks encountered along the way. From this episode, you'll learn…A bit about modern, domestic politics from a university professor in the Keystone state; the results of the 2022 midterm elections; the ongoing War between Russia and Ukraine; the role that alcohol played throughout history in raising revenue for the state; the meaning of “alco-imperialism”; the difference between fermented and distilled beverages; how alcohol affected indigenous peoples; why we should re-acquaint ourselves with typewriters; and much more! Time Stamps0:00 Introduction 1:21 Analysis of midterm election results in Pennsylvania 9:32 Fetterman's Unusual Campaign and Triumph11:40 Will Pennsylvania fix its electoral process? 14:56 General reflections on the (national) election results 18:14 Update on the Ukraine-Russia War23:49 Was Ukraine wise to continue the fight? 26:38 Why Alcohol? 36:27 Alcohol as a Revenue-Raiser49:09 What is “Alco-Imperialism”? 54:41 Fermentation v. Distillation1:00:45 Who was the WORST offender in the West? 1:09:40 Temperance and Prohibition1:13:29 What does “Manhattan” mean? 1:15:20 Typewriters: An archaic avocation1:26:59 Conclusion Links to Professor Schrad's books: Smashing the Liquor Machine - https://www.amazon.com/Smashing-Liquor-Machine-History-Prohibition/dp/0190841575/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OZ6ZM0PDFODE&keywords=mark+lawrence+schrad&qid=1668739929&sprefix=mark+lawrence+schrad%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1.Vodka Politics - https://www.amazon.com/Vodka-Politics-audiobook/dp/B00JPLEPVU/ref=sr_1_2?crid=OZ6ZM0PDFODE&keywords=mark+lawrence+schrad&qid=1668739961&sprefix=mark+lawrence+schrad%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-2. Bad Ideas - https://www.amazon.com/Political-Power-Bad-Ideas-Institutions/dp/0195391233/ref=sr_1_3?crid=OZ6ZM0PDFODE&keywords=mark+lawrence+schrad&qid=1668739961&sprefix=mark+lawrence+schrad%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-3. – Finneran's WakeListen to this and all episodes on your favorite podcast streaming service: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/74eUg83Q8zOgaRA5EBuzyl?si=871b6aa8082146af. Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/finnerans-wake/id1560923796. –Please, don't hesitate to leave a comment or send me a message (to which, I assure you, I'll promptly respond!) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100080972774597Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielethanfinneran/Twitter: @DanielEFinneranEmail me at finneranswake@gmail.com 

Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership of the U.S.S.R. represented a defining moment in Russian history. On the heels of his passing at 91, how will the last Soviet leader be remembered? The answer to this question probably depends a lot on where you're from in the world, says Dr. Mark Schrad, Professor of Political Science and Director of Russian Area Studies at Villanova University. While Gorbachev drew praise from the West for being a man of peace and principle, those same qualities complicated his legacy at home. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For this special episode, Greg speaks with his extraordinary and much-revered high-school history teacher, Mr. D. Stanley Moore, about Stan's Minneapolis background and education at Beloit College, his study of the Russian language in the US Army and eventually Russian Area Studies at the University of Minnesota and Dostoevsky at Yale, his path to and career at Rich East High School in the postwar town of Park Forest, IL, traveling, teaching, learning, and camping in the USSR and Europe (including in the explosive year 1968), teaching in China during and after Tiananmen Square, Russia's war on Ukraine, and his poetry, from which he reads.

Julia Sellers – Lecturer, Author, Coach, Researcher:Born in Banovce nad Bebravou, in Western Slovakia (former Czechoslovakia), Julia experienced her first out-of-body experience in 1995. Since that time, she devotes her free time to the study of OBEs. She is interested in quantum physics, free energy, anomalous cognition, near-death experiences and topics of merging science and religion. Julia has three degrees. She studied in the former USSR, USA and Slovakia. Majors studied: law, journalism, Russian Area Studies, Management, Phytopathology.Fluent in five languages, she has dual American and Slovak citizenship. She is a translator-interpreter; a lecturer in the Russian language and an English teacher at the first private school in the SLOVAK REPUBLIC focused on the behavioral problems of children with learning disabilities and emotional problems. Executive Manager and head of the international section of the presidential election campaign, (Slovakia), she is the foreign relations adviser to the ex-Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, an analyst for the Department of International Relations, deputy manager of the central election campaign, a foreign correspondent accredited to the US Department of State and a freelance writer and lobbyist. She also worked for the Fund for Constitutional Government.Julia has lectured in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and the U.S.A.; she has appeared in national, as well as international, media.She is the author of I Have Seen It Tomorrow (Videl Som to Zajtra). This extraordinary book explores out-of-body experiences (OBEs). The English verison of the book was published in February 2018.Julia is a member of the SSE (The Society for Scientific Research), the AREI (The Afterlife Reseaerch and Education Institute, Inc.), is active in ACISTE Forum ( American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences), and works closely with the FREE Foundation (The Doctor Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters) where she administrates the FREE Experiencer Research Study for Europe (The Czech Republic and Slovakia).For more information on Julia’s work and appearances, kindly visit the links below:The “I have seen it tomorrow” book appears on Amazon under pseudonym Iris Krst: Here on Amazon www.juliasellers.skMusic was By Chronox, Kevin Mcleod And Spaceboy at spaceboymusic.com

The Power & Market Report extends a warm welcome to first time guest Kevin Massesngill, CEO of Meraglim Holdings. Kevin explores international politics and finance from the beltway, and shares his unique view of the topics through the prism of Austrian economics. Interview Highlights [01:01] Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods. [04:10] Government monopolies, democracy, hypocrisy, and semantics. [08:10] A summary of the Meraglim business model. [11:40] Active reconnaissance; the origins of Meraglim. [12:48] How Meraglim works; the mechanics of the analytics. [16:10] Kevin Massengill's professional background. [23:10] A pre-Copernican universe; if your models are wrong, you're wrong. [24:47] Kevin's outlook on popular investments and gold. [34:04] The Fatal Conceit- don't ignore the signals.   About the guest: Kevin W. Massengill is the founder and CEO of Meraglim Holdings which has created a new approach to predictive analytics in capital markets that will improve performance and vindicate active investing. Prior to founding Meraglim, Mr. Massengill served as Senior Vice President, International Strategy & Business Development for Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a $5 billion science and technology company. Before that Mr. Massengill was a Managing Director for Silver Leaf Partners, an SEC registered boutique investment bank in New York City. Mr. Massengill also held senior leadership positions at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), a $26 billion science and technology company, where he was Vice President for International Operations and the Vice President and Regional Executive for the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining Raytheon, Mr. Massengill was the founder and CEO of Consultancy Partners Group, Ltd, Abu Dhabi, providing strategy, business development, and financial advisory services to companies in Asia, the Middle East and North America. A US Army Airborne Ranger qualified officer trained in Arabic and Russian, Lieutenant Colonel Massengill was awarded the US Army Legion of Merit and the US Department of State Meritorious Honor Award at his retirement following 20 years of service. Mr. Massengill currently serves on the advisory board of Flynxx, a US technology startup, and previously served on boards as diverse as the US Department of State’s Overseas Schools Advisory Council, GrowthGate Capital Corporation - Dubai, and as Chairman of the Board of the American Community School - Abu Dhabi. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Massengill was a Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.A. in Russian Area Studies and was awarded a US Army Top 5% Fellowship. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and has been a guest seminar lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has completed the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives at Harvard Law School, INSEAD’s International Directors Program at Fontainebleau and held FINRA Series 7 and 63 general securities licenses. He resides in Florida. Contact him via: Website:https://www.meraglim.com Twitter:https://twitter.com/Kurghen LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/meraglim About the host: Albert Lu is the President & CEO of Sprott US Media. Contact him via: Twitter @AlbertKLu Web at http://sprottmedia.com

The Power & Market Report extends a warm welcome to first time guest Kevin Massesngill, CEO of Meraglim Holdings. Kevin explores international politics and finance from the beltway, and shares his unique view of the topics through the prism of Austrian economics. Interview Highlights [01:01] Every election is a sort of advance auction of stolen goods. [04:10] Government monopolies, democracy, hypocrisy, and semantics. [08:10] A summary of the Meraglim business model. [11:40] Active reconnaissance; the origins of Meraglim. [12:48] How Meraglim works; the mechanics of the analytics. [16:10] Kevin Massengill's professional background. [23:10] A pre-Copernican universe; if your models are wrong, you're wrong. [24:47] Kevin's outlook on popular investments and gold. [34:04] The Fatal Conceit- don't ignore the signals.   About the guest: Kevin W. Massengill is the founder and CEO of Meraglim Holdings which has created a new approach to predictive analytics in capital markets that will improve performance and vindicate active investing. Prior to founding Meraglim, Mr. Massengill served as Senior Vice President, International Strategy & Business Development for Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) a $5 billion science and technology company. Before that Mr. Massengill was a Managing Director for Silver Leaf Partners, an SEC registered boutique investment bank in New York City. Mr. Massengill also held senior leadership positions at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), a $26 billion science and technology company, where he was Vice President for International Operations and the Vice President and Regional Executive for the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining Raytheon, Mr. Massengill was the founder and CEO of Consultancy Partners Group, Ltd, Abu Dhabi, providing strategy, business development, and financial advisory services to companies in Asia, the Middle East and North America. A US Army Airborne Ranger qualified officer trained in Arabic and Russian, Lieutenant Colonel Massengill was awarded the US Army Legion of Merit and the US Department of State Meritorious Honor Award at his retirement following 20 years of service. Mr. Massengill currently serves on the advisory board of Flynxx, a US technology startup, and previously served on boards as diverse as the US Department of State’s Overseas Schools Advisory Council, GrowthGate Capital Corporation - Dubai, and as Chairman of the Board of the American Community School - Abu Dhabi. A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Massengill was a Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a B.A. in Russian Area Studies and was awarded a US Army Top 5% Fellowship. He holds an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University and has been a guest seminar lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has completed the Program on Negotiation for Senior Executives at Harvard Law School, INSEAD’s International Directors Program at Fontainebleau and held FINRA Series 7 and 63 general securities licenses. He resides in Florida. Contact him via: Website:https://www.meraglim.com Twitter:https://twitter.com/Kurghen LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/meraglim About the host: Albert Lu is the President & CEO of Sprott US Media. Contact him via: Twitter @AlbertKLu Web at http://sprottmedia.com

Scholarship@Villanova lecture featuring Lynne Hartnett, PhD, assistant professor, Department of History, director of Russian Area Studies, director of the Center for the Study of Violence and Conflict.

Scholarship@Villanova lecture featuring Lynne Hartnett, PhD, assistant professor, Department of History, director of Russian Area Studies, director of the Center for the Study of Violence and Conflict.

Jennifer Eremeeva is an American writer, photographer, Russian historian, blogger, and humor and cooking columnist based in Moscow Russia. In 2009, Jennifer created   the award-winning blog “Dividing My Time: Finding The Funnier Side of Life in Russia,” which highlights humorous aspects of her life in Russia, her cross-cultural marriage and offers up very digestible doses of Russian history, culture, politics, literature and her own wry observations of daily life in the world's largest country. In 2011, Jennifer parlayed her passion for running great food to ground in Moscow in The Moscovore, an English-language site dedicated to gathering cooking resources, news, and recipes together in one place.   Jennifer is a regular contributor to The Voice of Russia, BBC Russia Service, and is the Cooking and Humor columnist for “Russia Beyond The Headlines:” a monthly color supplement to The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Times of India and others. Jennifer was born in Oklahoma City, and raised and educated in New England and the United Kingdom.  She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Russian Area Studies from Columbia University in 1989. Jennifer's professional life featured a decade and a half in the Travel & Tourism industry. She also served as Head of External Relations with United Financial Group (UFG) a major Russian investment bank from 2003 – 2006 through its strategic sale to Deutsche Bank.   Her new book is Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow!