Past Events
The Orthodox battlefield
The role and abuse of the church in Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the state of freedom of faith in Ukraine.
29th January 2025, 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Chatham House
Power and The Russian Orthodox Church with Lucy Ash
Join us for a captivating interview with award-winning journliast, Lucy Ash, as she delves into the powerful role of the Russian Orthodox Church in modern-day politics and its influence under Vladimir Putin.
7:00pm, Tuesday 3rd of December 2024, The Hearth
Trouble
Charity and War: The Russian Orthodox Church in Britain
Wednesday 11th December 2024, 5–6pm
House of Commons
Women’s Day: Screening and Q&A with Dolya Gavanski and Lucy Ash
Pushkin House is proud to present WOMEN’S DAY, a documentary film by Dolya Gavanski that includes personal testimonies by extraordinary women born in the Soviet Union.
After the screening, Dolya Gavanski will be in conversation with journalist Lucy Ash.
Monday 28 June 2021 7:00 pm
Sunday 4 July 2021 11:00 pm
Pushkin House
Making The Women Of The Gulag
Join us for an evening with filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya director of ground breaking documentary film Women of the Gulag, that tells the compelling and tragic stories of the female last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population under Stalin. In conversation with Lucy Ash.
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
7:00 pm–8:30 pm
Pushkin House
The Long Hangover: Shaun Walker in Conversation With Lucy Ash
The outgoing Moscow correspondent for the Guardian, Shaun Walker, in conversation with BBC journalist Lucy Ash about his new book, 'The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past'.
Thursday, 1 March 2018
7:00 pm–8:30 pm
Pushkin House
The War in Ukraine: Why It Matters to the World
The webinar with Serhy Yekelchyk explores Ukraine’s complicated history of ethnic and civic identity, its fraught relations with its former imperial master, Russia, and will situate the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in the wider international political context.