Soft Power with a Scalpel
Russian soft power has a new face: biker Alexander Zaldostanov, aka “The Surgeon.” The widely publicized tour of his Night Wolves motorcycle club, with all its carnivalesque and pretentious absurdity through parts…
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Commemorating the War: Is Glorification Without Hysteria Possible?
There is one notorious paradox deeply entrenched in the ardent debates about Russia’s May 9th celebration marking the 70th anniversary of World War II. While Russia is eager to use the…
The “Narva Paradox” and a Reality Check
(UT Blog) (Co-authored with Stefano Braghiroli) Estonia – The annexation of Crimea and the military insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern provinces under the “Russian world” slogan triggered political and academic debates centred…
Biopolitics and Power in Putin’s Russia
(Problems of Post-Communism) Abstract: In Putin’s third term, official rhetoric has become a normative, moralizing discourse promoting Russian traditional values as opposed to the “moral decay” of the West. This “biopolitical…
Changing the Color Revolutionary Discourse in Russia
On March 3, chairman of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee (and key Kremlin propagandist) Alexey Pushkov publicly admitted there are at least three scenarios for a “color revolution” in…
Special Issue: The Renewed Significance of Borders
(Problems of Post-Communism) The crisis in Ukraine and its implications for European security have revived the significance of borders as a key element in conflicts between Russia and its neighbors.…
Commemorating Boris Nemtsov
(UT Blog) Words kill. Discourses matter. Whoever physically triggered the gun that killed Boris Nemtsov, one of the most charismatic Russian opposition leaders in Moscow, his death on February 27th…
Two Guys Discussing Russia: Can TV in Russia Control Reality?
(Video Series) (Special Guest!) Russian politics is increasingly unpredictable. In order to help clarify the issues, Robert Orttung and Sufian Zhemukhov, on their new talk show “Two Guys Discussing Russia over Pastries,” invited Andrey Makarychev to address…
(Non) “Russian World”, (Non) Soft Power: Putin’s Serpentine Policy in the South Caucasus
(By Andrey Makarychev, Tartu, and Alexandra Yatsyk, Kazan) – This article provides an overall introduction to this issue of the Caucasus Analytical Digest, describing the nature of Russia’s relationships with…
New Policy Memo: The Crisis in Ukraine and the Baltic Sea Region: A Spillover of the Conflict?
This memo discusses the implications of the current crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations for the Baltic Sea region (BSR), for many years considered one of the greatest success stories of regional…