Dear readers, though my Russia blogging has moved to Global Voices, I’m always looking for things worth posting to AGT, which I haven’t abandoned, and will one day undoubtedly return to. This Friday thru Sunday, I’ll be attending the 44th annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in New Orleans. This is …

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I’m reporting today from the twisted loins of the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles, the site of this year’s national conference for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES, formerly “AAASS,” or ‘triple A, double S’). ASEEES/AAASS, aside from being a hopelessly anal-sounding phenomenon, is perhaps the largest gathering of the …

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