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A screening of the Russian cult film “Brat” (Brother) from 1997 will take place on September 23 at 6:00 pm in the “Krokodil” cinema in Berlin. In the subsequent public discussion, Dr. Julia Langbein and Prof. Dr. Michael Rochlitz will discuss the film with the audience.

Aleksei Balabanov’s 1997…

The photo exhibition ‘Chernobyl Memory Tour’ to the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was officially opened in the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen on September 9th, 2021. The exhibition, featuring pictures taken by Susanne Schattenberg and Michael Rochlitz on their trips to the…

Two doctoral researchers from the working group of Michael Rochlitz – Olga Masyutina and Michael Richter – took part in the annual conference of the European Consortium for Political Research. The conference was held online on August 30 - September 3, 2021. Olga participated in the ‘Policy Analysis…

06. September – 14. Oktober 2021, Haus der Wissenschaft Bremen, Sandstraße 4/5

Vor 35 Jahren explodierte ein Reaktor des Atomkraftwerks Tschernobyl und hinterließ eine Schneise der Verwüstung: eine radioaktive Wolke zog über Europa, Menschen mussten ihre Heimat verlassen und das in der Nähe des AKW…

In 2021, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the University of Bremen, the newspaper “Weser-Kurier” is publishing every week a portrait of a scientist from the university. On May 31st, an article presented the research of Michael Rochlitz, about authoritarian economic systems in Eurasia.

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On June 26, Michael Rochlitz was a guest on “In der Wirtschaft“ Podcast – a podcast about a variety of economic topics, conceived and recorded by (former) students of ‘Plurale Ökonomik’ Master’s program at the University of Siegen. The podcast episode was dedicated to the Russian economy and was…

Sarah Wilson Sokhey, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, was invited by Michael Rochlitz to present her new research project “Russia Isn’t a Normal Oil State: Financial Rentierism under Putin” at the IERP Economic Colloquium on June 22. The paper is a joint research project…

On June 7-10, 2021, our cooperation partner, the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the HSE University, held its 10th annual conference. The conference, "Political Economy in a Changing World", brought together scholars from Europe, Russia, the US and Asia who…

Ekaterina Paustyan's paper 'A Treaty for the Rich and Politically Loyal? Explaining the Bilateral Center-Region Treaties in Post-Soviet Russia' has just come out in a new issue of Russian Politics. The paper, available in open access, studies the signing of bilateral treaties between the federal and…

On May 27, 2021, the team of Michael Rochlitz took part in the digital workshop “Varieties of Populism in East and West”. The event was part of the Alexander von Humboldt Institutional Partnership Project between Freie Universität Berlin and Higher School of Economics Moscow. 

David Karpa, Olga…