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To Hack Abroad and Ban at Home: The Kremlin’s Cyber Activism

(PONARS Policy Memo) Russia has been playing a multi-fold game in the digital arena. It engages in international cyber attacks, spreads select narratives strategically overseas using the open media rules of…

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Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan

(Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs) (Co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk) This article discusses how the discursively and culturally constructed “Russian world” intersects and communicates with the “Turkic world” as an adjacent—and in…

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A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Re-actualization of Identity-driven Geopolitical Narratives in Estonia

(Geopolitics) The article examines the question of how the refugee crisis in Europe re-actualizes the existing national geopolitical narratives and affects the border-(re)drawing of European political communities. I particularly refer to…

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“Comprehensive approximation” with the EU: biopolitical governmentality and its spill-over effects in Georgia

(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This article examines Georgia’s experience of civil society engagement with reforms after 2008, which attests to the country’s Euro-integrationist aspirations. In particular, the…

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Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics

(Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) This issue’s special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor…

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Georgia: A Borderland beyond Geopolitics

(Slavica Publishers) Introduction: This collection of articles is a result of an international networked project that during three years supported professional mobility and connectivity between the University of Tartu and…

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A New Strategy for the South Caucasus | Kakachia, Makarychev, Yatsyk, Valiyev, and more

(Geopolitics and Security) The South Caucasus is a region at the nexus of various economic, political, and energy interests. It is currently witnessing some of the most complex and dangerous events…

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Post-election Russia; International sports politics; Russian soft power, conservatism & biopolitics; New Nemtsov book | Makarychev, Yatsyk

Post-elections Russia: what to expect? There are some questions how Russia would look after Putin`s expected re-election in March 2018. Whether Russia can attempt some changes internally and how West-Russia…

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Russia’s Anti-American Propaganda in the Euromaidan Era

(PONARS Policy Memo) Most experts recognize anti-Americanism as a pillar of the patriotic discourse that has risen during Vladimir Putin’s third term as president. One of the main reasons for this…

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VIDEO: Atlantic Council book discussion with Hale, Yatsyk: Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics

The Atlantic Council and the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies held a book discussion on Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics: Power and Resistance. On the night of February 27,…

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To Hack Abroad and Ban at Home: The Kremlin’s Cyber Activism

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A Popular Geopolitics of the Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Re-actualization of Identity-driven Geopolitical Narratives in Estonia

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