How Russian Television Prepared the Public for War

In debates about the responsibility for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, television undoubtedly plays an important role in the public’s supporting, ignoring, or opposing the Kremlin’s war. A key aspect of…

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Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times: In Search of Normality during Pandemic

(Nationalities Papers) Abstract: Pandemics and other crisis situations result in unsettled times, or ontologically insecure moments when social and political institutions are in flux. During such crises, the ordinary and unnoticed routines…

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Becoming banal: incentivizing and monopolizing the nation in post-Soviet Russia

(Ethnic and Racial Studies) Abstract: While new regimes often seek legitimation by forging banal ties between state and nation (or “banalization”), there have been few attempts to explain how nationalism becomes banal,…

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Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19

(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) Russia’s response to the current pandemic highlights its aspirations to become a world leader in facial recognition and artificial intelligence (AI). The adoption of self-isolation and digital…

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Becoming banal: incentivizing and monopolizing the nation in post-Soviet Russia

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Russia’s ministry of ambivalence: the failure of civic nation-building in post-Soviet Russia

(Post-Soviet Affairs) Abstract: This article argues that the sources of official and societal ambivalence towards civic nationhood in today’s Russia are found in the institutional instability and personalist dynamics of hybrid…

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Russia’s 2018 Presidential Election: Did Uncompetitive Elections Make Putin a Lame Duck?

(IPR Blog) On 18 March, Vladimir Putin secured a fourth term in office as President of the Russian Federation. Officially he received 76.66% of the vote, with more than 56…

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Russian protests won’t topple Putin but the Kremlin is right to be worried

(The Conversation) When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential election, he was seemingly blocked from running for office. But then, in early March, he posted an hour-long…

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Observing Autocracies from the Ground Floor [Special Issue of Social Science Quarterly]

(J. Paul Goode and Ariel I. Ahram, eds.) This special issue explores qualitative field work methods for observing and studying authoritarian regimes. Studying authoritarian regimes can be a difficult and dangerous task,…

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Russian Patriotism without Patriots? Interviews (in Perm and Tyumen) Reveal the Limitations of Patriotic Education

(PONARS Policy Memo) Soon after assuming the presidency in 2012, Vladimir Putin launched a series of political and economic reforms intended to strengthen the hand of the central government over…

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