Richard Tempest

In The News

  • Professor Richard Tempest was interviewed by the Illinois News Bureau regarding the insurrection of Prigozhin's Wagner Group in Russia. Tempest provides background on the Wagner Group and Prigozhin. You can read the full interview with his analysis of the consequences...

  • Russian opposition leader Alexsei Navalny – the main political opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who has exposed government corruption – recently was sentenced to more than two years in prison. Navalny survived being poisoned in August, which many believe was a state-ordered...

  • In December Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, published a new book, Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s...

  • Professor Richard Tempest was interviewed on Radio Svoboda on December 10, 2018 for a story on the American reception of writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was in Moscow for a conference dedicated to the writer's centennial. You can read or listen to the interview, in Russian, at the link below....