The Sakharov Program on Human Rights is pleased to welcome Evgenia
Lezina, a recipient of the spring 2008 Sakharov Fellowship.
Evgenia ("Jane") Lezina of Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow holds a MA in
Political Science from the Moscow School of Social and Economic
Sciences. Recognized as the best graduate of 2005, her thesis was a
comparison of political transformation in post-Nazi Germany and
post-Soviet Russia. Currently, she is enrolled in the "Political Systems
and Institutional Change" Program at the Lucca Institute for Advanced
Studies in Italy, working on her PhD Thesis "Strategies of Overcoming a
Totalitarian System." She is also actively involved in civil society
initiatives and democracy building and advocacy in Russia. At Harvard,
she plans to get acquainted with the work of civic education
organizations in the USA to gather the necessary material for a course
on civic education, on political culture and civil society, to be
introduced in Russia. She also hopes that acquaintance with the work of
human rights organizations will allow her to study and adapt to the
Russian conditions their successful practices and positive experience.
Please join me in extending to Jane Lezina a very warm welcome and best
wishes for a productive and enjoyable semester.
Tatiana Yankelevich, Director
Sakharov Program on Human Rights
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