UVU Integrated Studies Department

UVU Integrated Studies Department Integrated Studies serves students who have interests in more than one scholarly discipline. This program allows you to combine those interests.

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09/15/2026

Yesterday, we were honored to host Vladimir Kara-Murza at UVU as part of National Security Week. The event was made possible through the generous support of the U.S. Russia Foundation (USRF) and our grant supporting Russian Studies and greater student engagement with contemporary Russia and Russian civil society.

More than 100 students, faculty, staff, and members of the community joined us for Kara-Murza's extraordinary lecture, “Russia After Putin.”

Kara-Murza—Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, former political prisoner, and one of Russia's leading advocates for democracy and human rights—spoke about the severe restrictions on free expression in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine, the upcoming parliamentary elections, and the exclusion of Yabloko, Russia's only registered anti-war party, from the ballot.

But the heart of his lecture looked beyond the current political system to a more difficult question: What will Russia need to do when the next opportunity for democratic change comes?

Drawing on Russia's experience in the 1990s and on democratic transitions in other countries, Kara-Murza emphasized two important lessons.

First, Russia will need accountability and reconciliation. He argued that one of the failures of the post-Soviet transition was the absence of a meaningful process for confronting the abuses of the Soviet system and holding those responsible accountable. Without such a reckoning, many of the institutions and individuals associated with the old system survived into the new one.

Second, a democratic Russia will need a place in the community of democratic nations. Kara-Murza argued that Western countries should be prepared to offer a future democratic Russia meaningful opportunities for integration into institutions such as the European Union and NATO. Such opportunities, he suggested, could provide both an incentive and support for the extraordinarily difficult process of rebuilding civil society, democratic institutions, and the rule of law.

The lecture was followed by nearly 30 minutes of questions from our audience—and we easily could have continued.

This was precisely the kind of opportunity we hope to provide through the Russian Studies program at UVU: allowing our students to engage directly with individuals who are shaping the debates they study in their courses. We are deeply grateful to Vladimir Kara-Murza for sharing his time, experiences, and ideas with our community; to our colleagues in National Security Studies for helping us bring this event to UVU; and especially to the The U.S. Russia Foundation, whose support made this extraordinary opportunity possible.

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