
Visitors of S.P.R.E.E.S.
Students at S.P.R.E.E.S. meet and engage with leading experts in the region. Whether it is a political scientist from Oxford, a leader of the Russian women's movement, a poet from Moscow, or an ambassador from Kyrgyzstan, students are exposed to leading thinkers and policymakers in their field.
Our visitors have included:
- Kyrgyzstani journalist Zamira Sydykova
- Tolstoy scholar and translator Rosamund Bartlett
- Analyst and strategist Masha Lipman
- Academic director of the Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe Sofia Dyak
- Eminent historians of the Holocaust and Eastern Europe Jan T. Gross and Atina Grossmann
- Chechen foreign minister Ilias Akhmadov
- Turkmen historian Shokrat Kadyrov
- Writers and poets Tatiana Tolstaia, Andrei Voznesensky, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akmadulina, and Anatoly Rybakov
- The Honorable Roza Otunbayeva, ambassador from Kyrgyzstan and The Honorable Dr. Yuri Scherbak, ambassador from Ukraine
- Russian space scientist Roald Sagdeev
- Russian journalists Egor Kuznetsov and Tamara Kalugina
- Western Russian studies specialists Archie Brown, Thomas Remington, John Armstrong, Caryl Emerson, Boris Gasparov, Michael Mandelbaum, William Fuller, Janine Wedel, and Jerry Hough
- American astronaut and former resident of the Russian space station Mir Jerry Linenger
- Director of the Center for Political and Strategic Studies Susan Eisenhower