Interviews and Notable Mentions
May 16, 2013
Quoted in “After 60 Years of Public Service, Diplomat Finally Earns His Ph.D.” http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/3164
April 15, 2013
My co-edited book, Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness, was prominently featured in an editorial by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in The Root (“Was the Father of Russian Lit a Brother?” http://www.theroot.com/views/was-father-russian-lit-brother).
June 6, 2012
Panelist at Symposium on “The Karamazovs” at closing of the film festival, “Diverging Perspectives: The Filming of Russian Literature in Russian and the West,” sponsored by Causa Artium and FoRA 2012 (showing of “The Brothers Karazamov” at the Trbeca Grand Cinema, New York).
June 1, 2012
Speaker at opening panel of the film festival, “Diverging Perspectives: The Filming of Russian Literature in Russian and the West,” sponsored by Causa Artium and FoRA 2012 (showing of “The Brothers Karazamov” at the Trbeca Grand Cinema, New York).
May 31, 2012
Moderator of “Writers at the Flashpoint: New Russian Writing and the Riddle of the Caucasus,” part of the Festival of Russian Arts 2012 sponsored by Causa Artium in cooperation with the New York Public Library's World Languages Collection, the Bard College Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, and the Debut Prize Foundation, NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch.
February 2012
Interviewed on “The Culture Pop” on Voice of Russia.
December 29, 2011
Interviewed by Daphne Carr for “Czech Emigres and American Friends in the New York Rock, Theater Scenes Contemplate the Death of Vaclav Havel,” Capital http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/12/4815126/czech-emigres-and-american-friends-new-york-rock-theater-scenes-cont
October 15, 2011
Organizer and moderator of panel, “Revolution and Society: 1905,” Discovery Day: Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg, sponsored by Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
June 20, 2011
Interviewed on death of Elena Bonner by “Voice of Russia.” (http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/21/52192922.html)
March 2011
Cited in Mary Harvey article on Russian youth in Junior Scholastic.
June 2010
Participant in panel discussion of screening of film, “Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline,” One World Film Festival, Czech Center, New York.
April 19. 2010
Quoted in NTV news feature on centennial of Novoe russkoe slovo, «Новому русскому слову» — 100 лет http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/191118/
Feb. 15, 2010
Quoted in “Secretary of State responds to calls for CU scholar’s release,” Columbia Spectator http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/15/secretary-state-responds-calls-cu-scholar-s-release
Feb. 14, 2010
Featured in “Hillary Clinton replies to Columbia faculty regarding Tajbakhsh, Specblogs http://blogs.columbiaspectator.com/newsroom/?p=1421
Dec. 17, 2009 Quoted in “ Политологи США считают себя учениками Гайдара, in RIA Novosti http://rian.ru/society/20091217/199751811.html
April 23-29, 2009
Mentioned in, “Faun in the headlights: Lynn Garafola creates a special night of Ballets Russes” by Gia Kourlas, in Time Out New York.
October 13, 2008
Featured on “Persona Grata” Program on NTV America, Channel 523.
August 26, 2008
Featured in “Public Intellectuals: Columbia Faculty Bring Insight to the News,” "On Campus." Section of the Columbia University Website's News Page http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/oncampus/oped.html
August 24, 2008
Featured in “For Often Unsung Scholars, a War Means Center Stage” by Nicholas Phillips in The New York Times.
August 19, 2008
Interviewed on XM POTUS 08' Channel 130 on the Russia-Georgia conflict.
August 18, 2008
Wrote “Khrushchev to Putin, A War of Words” for The New York Times “Times Topics” blog.
August 17, 2008
Interviewed on CNN regarding the Russia-Georgia Conflict, hosted by Rick Sanchez.
March 31, 2008
Quoted in, “Dumbing Russia Down,” by Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova in Newsweek Magazine. http://www.newsweek.com/2008/03/22/dumbing-russia-down.html
March 23, 2008
Featured in, “The guests of Turkmenistan - the scientists of the Columbia University,” in State News Agency of Turkmenistan (TDH)
(http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/?idr=9&id=080323b)
March 2008
Featured on Turkmen Television
March 6, 2008
Moderated RIA Novosti Videolink on Presidential Elections
October 7, 2007
Mentioned in, “Политковскую вспоминают в России и за рубежом” BBC Russian.com (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7032000/7032749.stm), and “В Нью-Йорке состоится митинг памяти Политковской” Кавказский Узел Новости (http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/newstext/news/id/1198932.html)
October 2007
Andrea Sper, “Professor Nepomnyashchy” “Profiles” Barnard Bulletin (September 29th to October 12th) 6, 27.
Sept. 25, 2007
Quoted in “Turkmenistan President Focuses On Medicine and Education,” by Shane Ferro in Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/26936).
Sept. 28, 2007
Quoted in “Komšić of Bosnia-Herzegovina Addresses Students,” by Simone Foxman in Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/27056).
July 2007
Featured in “Assessing the Litvinenko Case,” by Dimitry Babich in Russia Profile Volume VI, Issue 6, 47-48.
June 28, 2007
Mentioned in “Videomost Moskva: Problems of Russian American Relations,” RIA Novosti.
June 6, 2007
Mentioned in “Мировой Кризис Журналистики: Ставим Крест? Наша Профессиа не Может Закрыться от Политики, Бизнеса, Религии и Толпы” Деловой Вторник.
(http://dvtornik.ru/articles/2007/06/05/0/549.html)
June 2007
Moderated a satellite-link live TV broadcast discussion by US and Russian experts of upcoming Putin-Bush meeting aired by RIA Novosti.
June 2007
Cited in Marshall Shulman obituaries in US and Russia, including AP release by Pat Milton, “Founding director of Columbia University's Soviet institute dies at 91” (reprinted in International Herald Tribune among other publications) and TV segment for Russia Today (video clip featured in news section of CU website).
June 2007
Moderator of panel, “Russia on the World Stage,” sponsored by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT (filmed and aired on CT-N local public TV station).
May 2007
Cited in Michelle Nichols, “Adoptive Families Snared in U.S.-Russia Tension” for Reuters (published in Washington Post, Moscow Times, St. Petersburg Times, and others) Featured on SIPA homepage.
April 2007
Interviewed on CNN International on death of Boris Yeltsin.
Fall 2006
Interviewed for “Voices From Prison” for “What’s the Word,” a public radio show sponsored by the MLA.
Dec. 24, 2005
Interviewed by Aliya Karimova, “Направлять студентов на обучение за границу – огромный подвиг для страны – мнение американского ученого” for Kazinform (http://www.inform.kz/index.php?lang=rus&select=archive§ion=36&page=62&y=&d=00&m=00#143615)
December 2005
Interviewed for Uzbek TV.
November 2004
Cited in Council on Foreign Relations transcript of Natan Sharansky, “The Power of Democracy.”
November 2003
Interviewed by Maya Pritsker on Russian radio station, “Narodnaia Volna.”
October 2003
Interviewed for Novoe russkoe slovo.
September 2003
Interviewed for Russian TV news on President Putin’s visit to Columbia University.
November 2002
Consultant on the Wilma Theater’s production of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s play, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, in November 2002.
July 18, 2002
Quoted in “Stuff Stalin Sausage, Immigrants Say,” by Greg Wilson in New York Daily News.
October 20, 2001
Interview on US-Russia relations, news, Moscow Third Channel.
June 1992
Participated in discussion on the art of translation on the program “New York and Company,” WNYC Radio.
May 16, 2013
Quoted in “After 60 Years of Public Service, Diplomat Finally Earns His Ph.D.” http://news.columbia.edu/oncampus/3164
April 15, 2013
My co-edited book, Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness, was prominently featured in an editorial by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in The Root (“Was the Father of Russian Lit a Brother?” http://www.theroot.com/views/was-father-russian-lit-brother).
June 6, 2012
Panelist at Symposium on “The Karamazovs” at closing of the film festival, “Diverging Perspectives: The Filming of Russian Literature in Russian and the West,” sponsored by Causa Artium and FoRA 2012 (showing of “The Brothers Karazamov” at the Trbeca Grand Cinema, New York).
June 1, 2012
Speaker at opening panel of the film festival, “Diverging Perspectives: The Filming of Russian Literature in Russian and the West,” sponsored by Causa Artium and FoRA 2012 (showing of “The Brothers Karazamov” at the Trbeca Grand Cinema, New York).
May 31, 2012
Moderator of “Writers at the Flashpoint: New Russian Writing and the Riddle of the Caucasus,” part of the Festival of Russian Arts 2012 sponsored by Causa Artium in cooperation with the New York Public Library's World Languages Collection, the Bard College Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, and the Debut Prize Foundation, NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch.
February 2012
Interviewed on “The Culture Pop” on Voice of Russia.
December 29, 2011
Interviewed by Daphne Carr for “Czech Emigres and American Friends in the New York Rock, Theater Scenes Contemplate the Death of Vaclav Havel,” Capital http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/12/4815126/czech-emigres-and-american-friends-new-york-rock-theater-scenes-cont
October 15, 2011
Organizer and moderator of panel, “Revolution and Society: 1905,” Discovery Day: Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg, sponsored by Carnegie Hall in partnership with The Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
June 20, 2011
Interviewed on death of Elena Bonner by “Voice of Russia.” (http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/06/21/52192922.html)
March 2011
Cited in Mary Harvey article on Russian youth in Junior Scholastic.
June 2010
Participant in panel discussion of screening of film, “Anna, Seven Years on the Frontline,” One World Film Festival, Czech Center, New York.
April 19. 2010
Quoted in NTV news feature on centennial of Novoe russkoe slovo, «Новому русскому слову» — 100 лет http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/191118/
Feb. 15, 2010
Quoted in “Secretary of State responds to calls for CU scholar’s release,” Columbia Spectator http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/02/15/secretary-state-responds-calls-cu-scholar-s-release
Feb. 14, 2010
Featured in “Hillary Clinton replies to Columbia faculty regarding Tajbakhsh, Specblogs http://blogs.columbiaspectator.com/newsroom/?p=1421
Dec. 17, 2009 Quoted in “ Политологи США считают себя учениками Гайдара, in RIA Novosti http://rian.ru/society/20091217/199751811.html
April 23-29, 2009
Mentioned in, “Faun in the headlights: Lynn Garafola creates a special night of Ballets Russes” by Gia Kourlas, in Time Out New York.
October 13, 2008
Featured on “Persona Grata” Program on NTV America, Channel 523.
August 26, 2008
Featured in “Public Intellectuals: Columbia Faculty Bring Insight to the News,” "On Campus." Section of the Columbia University Website's News Page http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/oncampus/oped.html
August 24, 2008
Featured in “For Often Unsung Scholars, a War Means Center Stage” by Nicholas Phillips in The New York Times.
August 19, 2008
Interviewed on XM POTUS 08' Channel 130 on the Russia-Georgia conflict.
August 18, 2008
Wrote “Khrushchev to Putin, A War of Words” for The New York Times “Times Topics” blog.
August 17, 2008
Interviewed on CNN regarding the Russia-Georgia Conflict, hosted by Rick Sanchez.
March 31, 2008
Quoted in, “Dumbing Russia Down,” by Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova in Newsweek Magazine. http://www.newsweek.com/2008/03/22/dumbing-russia-down.html
March 23, 2008
Featured in, “The guests of Turkmenistan - the scientists of the Columbia University,” in State News Agency of Turkmenistan (TDH)
(http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/?idr=9&id=080323b)
March 2008
Featured on Turkmen Television
March 6, 2008
Moderated RIA Novosti Videolink on Presidential Elections
October 7, 2007
Mentioned in, “Политковскую вспоминают в России и за рубежом” BBC Russian.com (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/russia/newsid_7032000/7032749.stm), and “В Нью-Йорке состоится митинг памяти Политковской” Кавказский Узел Новости (http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/newstext/news/id/1198932.html)
October 2007
Andrea Sper, “Professor Nepomnyashchy” “Profiles” Barnard Bulletin (September 29th to October 12th) 6, 27.
Sept. 25, 2007
Quoted in “Turkmenistan President Focuses On Medicine and Education,” by Shane Ferro in Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/26936).
Sept. 28, 2007
Quoted in “Komšić of Bosnia-Herzegovina Addresses Students,” by Simone Foxman in Columbia Spectator (http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/27056).
July 2007
Featured in “Assessing the Litvinenko Case,” by Dimitry Babich in Russia Profile Volume VI, Issue 6, 47-48.
June 28, 2007
Mentioned in “Videomost Moskva: Problems of Russian American Relations,” RIA Novosti.
June 6, 2007
Mentioned in “Мировой Кризис Журналистики: Ставим Крест? Наша Профессиа не Может Закрыться от Политики, Бизнеса, Религии и Толпы” Деловой Вторник.
(http://dvtornik.ru/articles/2007/06/05/0/549.html)
June 2007
Moderated a satellite-link live TV broadcast discussion by US and Russian experts of upcoming Putin-Bush meeting aired by RIA Novosti.
June 2007
Cited in Marshall Shulman obituaries in US and Russia, including AP release by Pat Milton, “Founding director of Columbia University's Soviet institute dies at 91” (reprinted in International Herald Tribune among other publications) and TV segment for Russia Today (video clip featured in news section of CU website).
June 2007
Moderator of panel, “Russia on the World Stage,” sponsored by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT (filmed and aired on CT-N local public TV station).
May 2007
Cited in Michelle Nichols, “Adoptive Families Snared in U.S.-Russia Tension” for Reuters (published in Washington Post, Moscow Times, St. Petersburg Times, and others) Featured on SIPA homepage.
April 2007
Interviewed on CNN International on death of Boris Yeltsin.
Fall 2006
Interviewed for “Voices From Prison” for “What’s the Word,” a public radio show sponsored by the MLA.
Dec. 24, 2005
Interviewed by Aliya Karimova, “Направлять студентов на обучение за границу – огромный подвиг для страны – мнение американского ученого” for Kazinform (http://www.inform.kz/index.php?lang=rus&select=archive§ion=36&page=62&y=&d=00&m=00#143615)
December 2005
Interviewed for Uzbek TV.
November 2004
Cited in Council on Foreign Relations transcript of Natan Sharansky, “The Power of Democracy.”
November 2003
Interviewed by Maya Pritsker on Russian radio station, “Narodnaia Volna.”
October 2003
Interviewed for Novoe russkoe slovo.
September 2003
Interviewed for Russian TV news on President Putin’s visit to Columbia University.
November 2002
Consultant on the Wilma Theater’s production of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s play, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, in November 2002.
July 18, 2002
Quoted in “Stuff Stalin Sausage, Immigrants Say,” by Greg Wilson in New York Daily News.
October 20, 2001
Interview on US-Russia relations, news, Moscow Third Channel.
June 1992
Participated in discussion on the art of translation on the program “New York and Company,” WNYC Radio.
