I arrived to #WHA conf in #Incheon. Feeling empowered my paper is ready as I began this new story in Oct. How the USSR didn't join #FAO in the 1960s. I make a stretch to Comintern years and Moscow Agrarian Institute of the1930s - competitor of the predicessor of FAO in Rome, and anti-imp struggle.

Russian National Library, Special Collection area

Article on land rights in Palestine, 1927. Komintern has a journal on economy in rural areas with much focus on colonized countries.

Looking at what was the Communist world attitude to the Indian partition.

Second day of our workshop!

On May 28–29, we will welcome participants to our workshop at the Geneva Graduate Institute: "Across the Bamboo Curtain: Economic, Political, and Technological Exchanges Between East and West During the Cold War." www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Roundtable on the first comprehensive book on history of Red Cross and Communism. The Red Cross Museum. The book is in open access! Jean-François Fayet, Marie-Luc Desgrandchamps, Marie Cugnet, Donia Hasler (eds.) www.georg.ch/la-croix-fac...

Ten years I has passed and I finally paid off my student loan for my MA program in Canada. Back then, I know it I looked odd, an immigrant doing a Master's in History. I had a yearly income debt after and no definite promise it would workout. Merci au programme #pretsetbourses Québec!

Last week I made an academic visit to Middle East Technical University in North Cyprus. Thanks to an invitation from professor Defne Gonenc. I gave an intro lecture to BA students on Russian history. The campus is in a rural area on a hill with views to mountains and the sea. Just a gorgeous place!

What if in the universe of Indian scholars there is an archive of Indo-Soviet Cultural Society news bulletin. I've seen only little pieces of it... BUT good ones!

My review of a book by Liliane Stadler. The book is especially relevant today, as Switzerland maybe losing its neutrality (?), or can no longer afford it, while surrounded by a unified EU. www.connections.clio-online.net/publicationr...

#CfP for PhD/ECR: Across the Bamboo Curtain: Econ, Polit, and Tech Exchanges Between East and West During the Cold War, 1950s-1970s Geneva, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2026 networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Organized by: Yi Liu, Ziru Yang, Karina Khasnulina, and me Img: British airplane in China, 1961

From the conference on social history students organizations.

Auditing a conference on student organizations "Tackling Cold War Student Organizations though Social History," UniFr Nov 21. Constantin Katsakioris has presented on nationalist and ethnic tensions among students from Africa and the Middle East during studies at Soviet universities.

A little report on my first digitization project. So I completed making pictures of each page of the archive for Ukrainian Red Cross Abroad, 1939-45. You see it all in the box. It took me six working days. Now the new step - text recognition and playing with AI tools for research output.

#digitalhumanities #futureai #futureofhistory

For those who study Societ history - Reimagining Soviet Gerogia is a podcast with the participation of scholars talking about their research. Thank you Bryan and Sopiko for inviting me! Look up for the long list of previous series! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Coming soon...

7th Intl conf "Socialism on the bench," Pula, CR! Just opened! www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...

Much excited to participate at the "Global Socialism and Non-Alignment" conference in Pula, CR this week. Too many interesting panels going at the same time! Program in the link www.unipu.hr/ckpis/en/soc...

Report from the Euro Conf on African Studies by Sarah Howard. There you can find names of researchers working on the history of socialist countries' input in medical development of decolonizing African continent in the 1960s-80s. Happy, I was part of the panel! connecting3worlds.org/african-afro...

How great it was doing my BA in Paris and having all year free access to #Louvre. A new discovery during vacation.

Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed

On June 27, I participated online at #WHA convention at roundtable "Negotiated Humanitarianism: CARE packages and the Global History of US foreign aid during the Cold War." We hope to have our texts published soon! My share will be on CARE reaching millions of Indian schoolchildren in the 1960s.

Thank you for organizing the panel!

Thank you Prague and #ECAS2025 for the chance to share my work! It was especially entertaining to be hosted in the building where my research events happened in 1961. Look up for texts on Socialist Medical Entanglements in the decolonizing world in this OA special issue brill.com/view/journal...

Our panel on Medical Socialist Entanglements is at 11 15, ground floor 011, #ECAS2025. Bidemi Balogun, Sarah Howard, me.

#Vibecoding - this is how we can now program #AI without training just by taking to it. New terminology. Frederick Madore presentation #ECAS2025, Leibniz Zentrum Berlin.

Updates what is going on with AI. Expert opinion, Albrecht Hofheinz UoOslo, on what are the best AI tools to read large handwriting texts as of now. #ECAS2025

Ok, on y va. #ECAS #ECAS2025 European Conference on African Studies. Prague.

I will be in Prague June 23-28 at the #ECAS2025. Presenting my talk on the 28th. First time going to such a large conference for African studies! I hope to meet new colleagues and open another big field of research! #African #Afropean #Afropolitan www.ecasconference.org/2025/

I want to announce my #YouTube channel where I will post videos and audio recordings I am making and repost relevant history related posts from colleagues. www.youtube.com/@SeveryanDya...

My first article on my current History of International Red Cross project is finally out! I hope more texts on Soviet doctors abroad will come out in the upcoming years. This one is on first Soviet doctors in Delhi. #USSR #INDIA #REDCROSS #HUMANITARINISM

If you are part of Slavic studies don't miss this discussion on Revisionism. "In this panel historians Sheila Fitzpatrick, Anna Krylova, Lewis Siegelbaum, and Ronald Suny gather to discuss the history and legacy of the "revisionist turn." youtu.be/L9pLh1T5RbI?...

"Project on the International Red Cross Movement and the Cold War Divide, the 1940s–1980s" a new post on the CNHH website by @severyandyakonov.bsky.social , post-doctoral fellow @carleton.ca @carletonfass.bsky.social : aidhistory.ca/project-on-t... ‪@ifrc.org‬ ‪@icrc.org‬ ‪@icrclibrary.bsky.social‬

Printed in the USSR for Uganda Red Cross Society, I am not sure when...

You can read my blog entry on my current project on hist of Intl Red Cross, 1940s-80s and about amazing archives at CarletonU in Ottawa. Special thanks to the Canadian Network for Humanitarian History for posting! Join their newsletter if interested in these themes. aidhistory.ca/project-on-t...

For lovers of podcasts and social justice: My colleague @severyandyakonov.bsky.social has interviewed Canadian doctor Yipeng Ge, who went to Gaza on a humanitarian mission and was suspended from his university. Public history at its best. Please share! creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

You can listen my interview (58 mins) with with Dr. Yipeng Ge @yipengge.bsky.social, a Canadian physician who traveled to Gaza on a humanitarian mission here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vwG... #GAZA #HUMANITARIANISM #FREESPEECH

Interesting fact, in 1956 ministers of health care (and in charge or heads of national Red Crosses) in the USSR, India, and China were women. Maria Kovrigina, Amrit Kaur, and Li Dequan. And active in international women's federation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Dequan

Coming soon! My new article “'Resilience, Perseverance, and Sense of Diplomacy:' The Soviet #RedCross in #India, 1954–1963" is accepted by the European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health.

1976, the Philippines, Canadian Red Cross records. @carleton.ca library special collection.

@carleton.ca allowed me to open a letter sent in 1942. A lady had sent her address for her son if he would search for her.

A map of #Delhi from 1957! There is a pictogram of a girl's face in a nurse hat to indicate a hospital. The Soviet #RedCross facility was in Kalawati Saran, in the very center East side of Connaught Place.

American Red Cross WWII era poster and fashion ad at the same time. Lauren Bacall in 1943.

Just a nice stamp. I want to go to India again. Now for their Indian Red Cross archives but it seems it's going to be quite a challenge. I need good contacts! Чтобы пропротежировали меня!

I opened a random page of Petit Robert dictionary in my office. Now I know a new word.

My talk is on Monday, March 31. Online option too, in the link. Thank you, Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, for posting it! aidhistory.ca/the-soviet-r...

Come join my talk March 31, at 1 PM, @carletonu.bsky.social in #Ottawa. 1 PM, 202 Tory building. #redcross #ussr #india #decolonisation #decolonization carleton.ca/history/cu-e...