Visitors of S.P.R.E.E.S.

Students at S.P.R.E.E.S. meet and engage with leading experts in the region. Whether it is a political scientist from Oxford, a leader of the Russian women's movement, a poet from Moscow, or an ambassador from Kyrgyzstan, students are exposed to leading thinkers and policymakers in their field.

Our visitors have included:

• Kyrgyzstani journalist Zamira Sydykova
• Tolstoy scholar and translator Rosamund Bartlett
• Analyst and strategist Masha Lipman
• Academic director of the Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe Sofia Dyak
• Eminent historians of the Holocaust and Eastern Europe Jan T. Gross and Atina Grossmann
• Chechen foreign minister Ilias Akhmadov
• Turkmen historian Shokrat Kadyrov
• Writers and poets Tatiana Tolstaia, Andrei Voznesensky, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akmadulina, and Anatoly Rybakov
• The Honorable Roza Otunbayeva, ambassador from Kyrgyzstan and The Honorable Dr. Yuri Scherbak, ambassador from Ukraine
• Russian space scientist Roald Sagdeev
• Russian journalists Egor Kuznetsov and Tamara Kalugina
• Western Russian studies specialists Archie Brown, Thomas Remington, John Armstrong, Caryl Emerson, Boris Gasparov, Michael Mandelbaum, William Fuller, Janine Wedel, and Jerry Hough
• American astronaut and former resident of the Russian space station Mir Jerry Linenger
• Director of the Center for Political and Strategic Studies Susan Eisenhower