{"600973":{"#nid":"600973","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"It\u0027s Back to the Future in Run-up to Russian Elections","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDina Khapaeva, a professor in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was quoted in\u0026nbsp;the January 13 \u003Cem\u003EVoice of America \u003C\/em\u003Earticle, \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s Back to the Future in Run-up to Russian Elections.\u0026rdquo; The School of Modern Languages is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast October, the government endorsed the country\u0026#39;s first-ever monument to Ivan the Terrible, with the unveiling in the city of Orel of a statue to the 16th-century czar who expanded Russia but at great human cost. Ivan the Terrible is reputed to have killed one of his sons during a rage.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe official lionization of historical despots feeds into an embrace of anti-democratic values, according to academic Dina Khapaeva, professor of Russian at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She noted in an article for Project Syndicate, a nonprofit that distributes commentary, that Russian officials have even spoken approvingly of Russian serfdom, which \u0026quot;complements the desire for a return to autocracy.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;No wonder, then, that monuments to Stalin, too, are multiplying in Russian cities,\u0026quot; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/back-to-future-runup-russian-elections\/4206955.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EVoice of America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28754","created_gmt":"2018-01-18 17:26:13","changed_gmt":"2018-01-18 17:26:29","author":"T. Jesse Brannen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"scam-awareness","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/back-to-future-runup-russian-elections\/4206955.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"441101":{"id":"441101","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva","body":null,"created":"1449256190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:50","changed":"1539024312","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:45:12","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Dina Khapaeva","file":{"fid":"203074","name":"dinakhapaevaweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34304,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg?itok=WXfe7j-L"}}},"media_ids":["441101"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}