Global Russians and Millennials in Academic Environment. RIAC Discussion

..., Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, a literary anthropologist and writer, discussed how young scholars differ from their predecessors. The discussion focused on the issues of definition and identification of generations, the attitude of the millennials to the disintegration of the USSR, the phenomenon of "global Russians," the impact of globalization, the clash of political correctness concepts, new sincerity, and post-truth in the expert environment. Below are selected talking points of the participants of the discussion. One of the main features ...