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by Natalia Ermolaev and Philip Gleissner (Princeton U) 

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is pleased to announce the acquisition of the personal library of Professor Anthony Cross, historian and scholar of 18^th-century Russian studies and professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2004. He is internationally known for his work on 18th-century Russia and Anglo-Russian cultural relations.

Harriet Murav, Slavic Review editor, provides an overview of the journal.

Marlene Laruelle at George Washington University discusses the new Central Asia Analytical Network, a unique Russian language web platform.

Marijeta Bozovic discusses her work to develop a research initiative and online environment dedicated to the study of Russian and East European avant-gardists and émigrés in the twentieth century.

Pol-Int is a community-based online platform that links the worldwide Polish studies scholarly community and promotes content exchange among scholars.

The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers teaching/research opportunities at a number of institutions in Eastern Europe

This article highlights the challenges faced in ensuring university administrators, donors, and policy-makers recognize that Polonists represent an extraordinarily dynamic field, and study a country that is quickly rising to a position of prominence.

In 2015, a new Committee was formed to promote serious exchange of ideas and discussion of policy toward Russia at a time when the space for cooperative discussion is much narrower than only a few years ago.