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 confrontation will develop interest almost everyone. Professor Andrey Makarychev from the University of Tartu shares his opinion on in a number of issues, including Russia`s external and internal policy, Russian world.
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Entertain and Govern: From Sochi 2014 to FIFA 2018
By Andrey Makarychev & Alexandra Yatsyk. The article looks at Russia’s international sports politics from two different perspectives. The authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and stabilizing its foundations. They argue that, due to mega-events, the Russian state has found itself under persistent external pressures from international organizations, and has had to react to them and adjust its legal norms and policy practices accordingly. The key argument of the article is that both elements of the puzzle can be approached as central elements of governmentality.
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Biopolitics and Russian Studies: An Introduction | Beyond Geopolitics: Russian Soft Power, Conservatism, and Biopolitics
By Andrey Makarychev. This article offers a new approach to Russian foreign policy under Putin’s presidency as shifting from its ‘soft power’ model to what might be characterized through the prism of biopower. The author discusses the various meanings attached to the concept of attraction, and scrutinises the biopolitical turn in Russia as a domestic phenomenon and as a key element of Russia’s power projection abroad. It is argued that biopolitics as a power instrument can play different roles – it can be a tool to construct Russian national (and simultaneously imperial) identity and to distinguish Russia from the West, and channel for communication with conservative forces across the globe.
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Video: Boris Nemtsov Book Launch and Discussion
With co-editors Andrey Makarychev & Alexandra Yatsyk.
View on YouTube | Open Estonia Foundation
