Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS)

New #ZOiS_Report on trade between #Moldova and the breakaway region of #Transnistria out now! 🔗 www.zois-berlin.de/en/publicati...

2️⃣ Traders are rather pragmatic when it comes to geopolitics: Transnistrian businesses trading with the rest of Moldova tend to favour greater EU integration. Moldovan businesses trading with Transnistria are more likely to support economic engagement with both the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union.

New #ZOiS_Report on trade between #Moldova and the breakaway region of #Transnistria out now! 🔗 www.zois-berlin.de/en/publicati...

Based on a survey among 1,161 businesses, researchers Julia Langbein, Sabine von Löwis, @ivodinev.bsky.social & Maxim Slav investigated links between political views & the market orientation of businesses on both sides & asked whether trade might contribute to conflict resolution.

In ihrem neuen Buch untersucht @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social anhand von Umfragedaten, Interviews und O-Tönen das Russlandbild der Deutschen – und findet dort weniger Wissen als viel mehr eigene Befindlichkeiten. Für #ZOiS_MeetTheAuthor haben wir mit ihr über ihre Motivation und das Buch gesprochen.

Day two of #ceecon26 is starting at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social.

The closing roundtable took a critical look at the ‘scholar’ at risk' ecosystem, questioning the risk-safety continuum in a world faced with both war and increased political volatility and authoritarian tendencies in traditional ‘host’ environments – circling back to the theme of (un)certainties.

Day two of #ceecon26 is starting at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social.

At Henry Ford Building, the OSCE Report Presentation on the Militarization and Indoctrination of Ukrainian Children by the Russian Federation chaired by ZOiS Director @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social is starting.

We are kicking off #ceecon26, together with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Looking forward to 2 days filled with academic exchange around the theme (Un)certainty & meeting colleagues, some of whom took dangerous journeys to join us.

⏰ 17.00 🔴 @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social chairs a discussion on the challenges of empirical research in Ukrainian society dealing with war 🔴 Sebastian Hoppe chairs and presents a paper at Return of the Enigmas? Studying Elite Politics in Closed Authoritarian Regimes

We are kicking off #ceecon26, together with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Looking forward to 2 days filled with academic exchange around the theme (Un)certainty & meeting colleagues, some of whom took dangerous journeys to join us.

⏰ 12.00 🔴 Félix Krawatzek, Associate Editor at @cpcs.bsky.social at the Publishing on Eastern Europe and Eurasia in (Un)Certain Times: An Editors' Roundtable 🔴 Tsypylma Darieva at Russian Wartime Migrants Uncertainties: Between Integration and Isolation

We are kicking off #ceecon26, together with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Looking forward to 2 days filled with academic exchange around the theme (Un)certainty & meeting colleagues, some of whom took dangerous journeys to join us.

We are kicking off #ceecon26, together with @dgoberlin.bsky.social and @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Looking forward to 2 days filled with academic exchange around the theme (Un)certainty & meeting colleagues, some of whom took dangerous journeys to join us.

Repressionen aus #Russland betreffen Kritiker*innen, Journalist*innen, Forschende und ganze Institutionen über Grenzen hinweg. Eine neue Folge #Roundtable_Osteuropa mit dem Historiker & Sicherheitsexperten Mark Galeotti, ZOiS-Direktorin @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social & Journalistin Tamina Kutscher.

Four years, 24 Fellows, 26 Spotlights on Ukraine, even more academic publications, a plethora of events, countless encounters & conversations condensed into 52 pages: Today, the UNET Times is out, a journal about research in & on #Ukraine based on the work of the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS #UNET.

The UNET Fellows have studied displacement, education, mental health, resilience, social cohesion & much more. In the process, we learned that research itself needs care: care for the people we study, care for those doing the research, and care in how knowledge about Ukraine is produced and shared.

Four years, 24 Fellows, 26 Spotlights on Ukraine, even more academic publications, a plethora of events, countless encounters & conversations condensed into 52 pages: Today, the UNET Times is out, a journal about research in & on #Ukraine based on the work of the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS #UNET.

UNET was launched by ZOiS in 2022 in response to the threat posed to Ukrainian academic life by Russia's war, offering both Berlin- and Ukraine-based fellowships, offering stipends, mentorship, networking, support with publications and research communication, with funding from BMFTR.

Since the summer, Russia has been carrying out itensified air strikes on Ukrainian cities. In Kyiv in particular, it is ruthlessly destroying civilian targets. This week, Russia set fire to the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in a drone attack. Two people lost their lives as a result.

The Academy is a beacon of Ukrainian science and also the academic home of several fellows in our Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS (UNET) project. It is with great sadness that we view these attacks, which painfully highlight what this war is really about: the destruction of Ukrainian sovereignty.