Some discussions during the excellent BASEES 2026 conference last week in Birmingham.
Tony van der Togt
The four big challenges in studying Russia since 2022
Well, it's not really four, but 'access', 'self-censorship', '(un)representative data', and 'ethics' are a decent approximation. A post about some talks at BASEES 2026. postsocialism.org/2026/04/13/t...
A Birmingham sculpture. Credit: Oosoom – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, I just returned from the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies where I …
