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Baltic Short-Term Travel/Research Grants

The Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) invites applications for travel grants for short-term study and research trips to Estonia and the Baltic Sea Region. The $5,000 travel grant can be used to cover travel and living expenses associated with a 1–3-week trip to Estonia in 2023. Other countries in the Baltic Sea Region may be visited during the trip. The student will be hosted by Tartu University’s Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (Tartu) and Vabamu Museum of Occupations and Freedom of Estonia (Tallinn). Deadline: May 1, 2024

Click here for more information about the grants and how to apply.

‘His legacy lives on’: Stanford community mourns Alexei Navalny

Several days following Navalny’s death, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) held a public event called “The Death of Alexei Navalny: Causes and Consequences” where former U.S. ambassador to Russia and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Director Michael McFaul, political science professor and FSI senior fellow Kathryn Stoner and CREEES Director and Soviet history professor Amir Weiner spoke. 

Read the full article in the Stanford Daily here.