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The EU Transformed: Why Should Russia Care?

Recent developments within the European Union affect not only its internal construction but also its relations with its Eastern European neighbors, including Russia. This memo discusses the ramifications of the…

Pride and Victims

Commemoration of the past is always political, but why? Is it because we lack due knowledge of history, or because our knowledge is distorted by relations of power? These…

The Russian State, Cognitive Dissonance, and Toys

When Jean Baudrillard wrote his book The System of Objects a few decades ago he couldn’t have imagined that his ideas would apply in today’s Russia, where items, particularly…

Pluralism or Impunity?

Notes from Kraków How effective are theories as explanatory tools? How strong should our commitments be to certain theories? These questions ignited a vivid debate at the 9th Convention…

Moldova as a Test Case?

Guest post by Andrey Devyatkov—After the recent visit of Angela Merkel to Moldova on 22 August many experts expected that the Transdnestrian settlement is to become one of key…

European Studies: A Deficit of New Approaches

Guess what panel was the largest at a major conference on European studies held in Passau, Germany? Quite tellingly, it was on EU–China relations. As Fraser Cameron, the director of…

Russia’s Soft Power: Beyond Kalinka-Malinka

This past weekend I had a rare chance to observe Russia’s soft power in action: Gandermenmarket, one of the most beautiful squares in Germany (at least, this is what…

Away with Political Simulacra?

What Russia and the EU share, even having drifted apart from each other in most policy spheres, are unfulfilled (or simply wrong) expectations. Indeed, intensive discourse on Russia’s European…

Talking about Talking: A Socio-Linguistic Look at Russia and its Neighbors

For socio-linguists everything matters – private ads hanging on the fences, street signs, media commercials, election posters, and even football fans’ exclamations. This made the Socio-Linguistic Symposium “Language and…

Visual Representations, Pussy Riot, and Putin’s Hatred for Politics

If you need a short and comprehensible answer to the question of why Russia is not like the rest of Europe, look at the “Pussy Riot” trial. Perhaps the group…

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