Tonight, the Russian House is getting wired.
No, this is not the plot of a Cold War spy drama - the University's Russian House is being wired not for surveillance, but for satellite television.
Beginning this evening, the house will receive two Russian TV channels via satellite, including a news station that will enable house residents and other Russian scholars to improve their language skills and their understanding of Russian current events.
The Russian House, located at 102 Cresap Lane, is home to six students and Resident Manager Alexander Melmikov.
To celebrate the new satellite television, the house is hosting what Yuri Urbanovich affectionately calls a "Satellite Dish-Warming Party" tonight at 6:30. Urbanovich, adjunct professor of politics and resident faculty in the Russian House, said the reception will involve more than sitting around watching the tube.
"The student residents of the house have prepared a concert of classical music and poetry readings," Urbanovich said.
Along with inviting Slavic studies and foreign affairs faculty, Melmikov will extend an invitation to Dr. Svetlana Broz, who will deliver a talk entitled "Courage, Truth, and Reconciliation: Good People in an Evil Time," this afternoon in an event sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies.
Broz, the granddaughter of former Yugoslavian leader Josip Broz Tito, volunteered as a cardiologist in Bosnia when conflict erupted in 1992. While working in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Broz began interviewing for a book that describes human experiences during the Bosnian War. She interviewed 90 people, including 30 Serbs, 30 Croats and 30 Bosnians, all of whom lent aid to people outside their ethnic group.
"Dr. Broz's book chronicles the lives of people who stuck their neck out and took a risk, and tried to do the right thing in a bad situation," said Spencer Bakich, program assistant at the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies. "She looks at the commonalities among these people and what motivated them to do what they did."
Broz's efforts culminated in the publication of her book, which was translated into English in 2001.
Broz will speak in the Rotunda Dome Room this afternoon from 3 to 5.
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