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- CREES academic organises conference 'Russia and the EU: the Future of Europe and Eurasia' at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Europe in Moscow
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- Friday 17th May 2013
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- David White attended a conference in Edinburgh at the end of April organised under the auspices of UACES. Speakers at the conference came from the UK and Russia.
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- Tuesday 14th May 2013
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- Dr Elena Denezhkina, an Honorary Research Fellow of CREES, with the support of the Centre presented a paper at the 2013 BASEES conference, entitled 'the Sverdlovsk Saga'.
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- Friday 26th April 2013
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- My dates at CREES were 1963-66 as undergraduate, 1968-71 post grad. Am now retired, or at least not being paid a salary. Also Professor Emeritus of Politics at the Open University, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex.
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- Thursday 11th April 2013
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- When CREES was established on October 1, 1963, Britain and British universities were very different from today. Both the Conservative and Labour parties assumed that coal, electricity and the railways had been nationalised for ever; most capital investment was in the hands of the state. There were far less students than today, but it was taken for granted that the student population would rise rapidly, that higher education was free of charge, and that children of parents who were not well-off would receive a maintenance grant.
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- Thursday 11th April 2013
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- I joined CREES in the autumn of 1968 as a Masters student. This was a turbulent time, with a student occupation of the Great Hall for over a week in my first term, an action in which several students of the Centre were actively involved, in particular the late Pete Gowan, who went on to become a nationally known political activist of the International Marxist Group.
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- Thursday 21st March 2013
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- At the invitation of Dr Deema Kaneff, Prof. D. Segert from the University of Vienna came to CREES to present a talk in the 50th Anniversary Seminar Series on 'Eastern Europe after 1989 - a laboratory for the sustainability of democracy?'
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- Wednesday 20th March 2013
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- Initially a graduate student on the MSocSci, I converted to a PhD (supervised by R. W. Davies and awarded in July 1984). I am now Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent.
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- Monday 11th March 2013
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- The academic and peer support networks at CREES were incredible and I look back at my CREES years with enormous gratitude to all those who shared their time, expertise, experience and very amusing anecdotes.
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- Wednesday 6th March 2013
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- This event is a brilliant opportunity for staff and students to find out what the School's PhD students are working on, as well as an opportunity for all our PhD students and staff to get together and discuss on-going research.
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- Wednesday 6th March 2013