Yaacov's lecture will focus on the Soviet intelligence community’s efforts to discover the extent and patterns of the mass extermination of Jews from 1941. Given what's going on in Ukraine, Yaacov's research on Soviet intelligence during the 1940s, 50s, &c. sheds some interesting (and chilling) light on the present.

On 13th April 2022 the UK Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Republic of Rwanda on what is described as an ‘asylum partnership arrangement’. The agreement seeks to enable the ‘transfer’, or forced removal, of asylum-seekers from the UK to Rwanda to have their claims determined there, in accordance with Rwandan asylum and immigration law. The legal foundation for the UK’s proposed externalization of refugee determination and protection is the Nationality and Borders Act 2022.

Organised jointly RAI with the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

A pair of round-table discussions about the successes and failures of the Biden administration so far, and prospects for the midterm elections in November.

This event will also be live-streamed as a Zoom webinar. To watch the live stream you will need to register in advance.

More information and to register: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/state-play-biden-administration-midterm

By 1954, American evangelist Billy Graham was bigger news in London than in Texas. Graham was arguably responsible for an unparalleled transformation of US evangelicalism in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as America’s pastor-in-chief, having met with every US President since Harry S. Truman. But Graham’s path to triumph was paved abroad: it was in Europe that he grew into an internationally recognized religious leader.