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In January the Aleksanteri Institute welcomed this year's first Young Russian Scholar Helsinki Fellowship Program (YRUSH) visiting fellow...

Maritime transport fuels global trade. But is it already too cheap to be sustainable?

In Perm, Russia, Professor Judith Pallot met prisoners who were picking mushrooms. Most of the locals are current or former prison camp inmates.

Russian society has a profound desire for order. Few will criticise the leader for exercising power, as those who do will have to face the...

Digital Russia Studies, a new multidisciplinary initiative introduced only this year has taken off with good speed. The core group of four...

ALEKSANTERI INSIGHT 5/2018. The roots of the year 1989 date back at least to the year 1968, when the socialist revolution reached its tipping...

Information technology and our dependence on it expose us to cyberattacks in an entirely new way.

Aleksanteri scholars are available for questions and comments regarding the most recent conflict on the Azov Sea and developments leading to it...

ALEKSANTERI INSIGHT 4/2018. As economic growth has slowed down, the positive development of the early 2000s has been replaced by an increasing...