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Interview with Nikolay Koposov: "Putin’s Actions and Ideology Are Changing the World, Making It Potentially Unsafe for Everyone for Generations to Come"

18 Feb 2025 Nikolay Koposov
Nikolay Koposov is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the School of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech, he worked at Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Helsinki, and École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He was the Founding Dean of Smolny College, a joint venture between Saint Petersburg State University and Bard College, New York. Koposov specializes in modern European intellectual history, post-Soviet Russia, and the politics of historical memory. He has authored six books, including Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia (2018), and P...

Resistance Through Pop Culture and the Ideology of the “Russian World”: on Deconstruction in Times of War

18 Feb 2025 Nadia Kiss Luidmyla Pidkuimukha Yuliia Kolisnyk
The article analyses the main trends in pop culture since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the paper investigates which tools and elements of ethnic culture have been used to construct the image of Ukraine and new Ukrainian heroes. Moreover, the image of Ukrainians in the global arena and in modern Western pop culture is presented. In contrast, the article demonstrates how the imperialist ideology of the “Russian world” has been deconstructed in contemporary Ukrainian pop culture. The data for the research consists of memes, caricatures, songs, cartoons, merch, and graffiti that have mainly been created since 24 February 2022. The investigation is informed by multimodal discourse analysis...

Interview with Zianon Pazniak The Idea of Being a Prophet Never Crossed My Mind. I Simply Knew the Russians

18 Feb 2025 Zianon Pazniak
ZIANON PAZNIAK  (born 24 April 1944) is a prominent Belarusian politician, archaeologist, one of the founders of the Belarusian National Front (BNF), and from 1990 to 1996 a member of the parliament of the Belarusian SSR and later the Republic of Belarus. He is best known for exposing the mass graves of Stalin’s victims in Kurapaty in 1988, which was a key event in sparking the Belarusian national revival movement. Pazniak has been a tireless advocate of Belarusian independence and the preservation of Belarusian culture and language. In 1996, following Alexander Lukashenko’s tightening of authoritarian control over the country, Pazniak fled Belarus and lived in exile, where he remains active in the ...
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