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How the regime carries on the fight against Russian nationalists amid the war in Ukraine

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Natalia Yudina

How law enforcement’s approach to dealing with the ultra-right in Russia is evolving, even as one of the goals of the “special military operation” was “denazification.”
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The Phantasmatic Dimension of Culture Wars: The Case of Social Conservatism

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Dmitry Uzlaner

On the notion of “phantasm” in the Lacanian tradition of social and political theory and the phantasmic dimension of the culture wars, in particular of social conservatism.
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Nae Ionescu’s 1938 Legionary Phenomenon: A “Missing Link” between Evola and Dugin

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Jason Roberts

On the Legionary Phenomenon written by Romanian Legionary ideologue Nae Ionescu as yet unrecognized part of the corpus of fascist Integral Traditionalism.
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Patriarch Kirill’s Praetorian Guard: Sorok Sorokov as Radical Outreach for “Holy Tradition”

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Adam Hanzel and Kiril Avramov

An in-depth analysis of the interplay between Patriarch Kirill’s ideology of “Holy Tradition” and the movement Sorok Sorokov, Kirill’s praetorian guard, in charge of maintaining the order for patriarchal services.
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How ‘systemic liberals’ became soldiers for the Putin regime

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Sergei Shelin

The systemic liberals, who have represented the “human face” of the Russian bureaucracy before suffering a moral and ideological meltdown in 2022, have so far saved the Russian economy from collapse.
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Demonstrative immorality as Russia's new doctrine

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Andrei Kolesnikov

Since the outbreak of the war active support for the regime has come to imply cheering on cruelty, primitiveness and immorality, with the value of human life being reduced to the willingness to risk one’s life for the Kremlin.
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Which Popular Support for a New State Ideology?

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Marlene Laruelle

On Russian public opinion on the issue of state ideology and what are the “national-conservative” values and beliefs that seem to unite a majority of Russians.
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Public politics in the wartime Russian dictatorship

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Julian G. Waller

While Russia has not fallen down the totalitarian path, the political dynamics playing out in the public eye are hardly uniform and reflect real claims to power and influence.
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Why does the Putin regime tolerate its radical conservative critics?

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Jules Sergei Fediunin

On why Russian warmongers get away with their angry criticism on the army’s poor performance, even though a newly adopted law explicitly bans criticism of the Russian military.
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Putin's politics of memory: The sovereignty of the past over the present

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Ilya Budraitskis

The “unbroken history” of the Russian state has been proclaimed as the foundation of an incontestable official ideology, meaning that the past now poses an actual danger to the prevailing order and is under attack.
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Is Alexander Zinoviev the new official philosopher of Russia?

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Mikhail Suslov

On why Alexander Zinoviev, quoted by Putin at the 2022 Valdai meeting, is best suited for the role of “official” philosopher of today's Russia than Dugin or Ilyin.
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The Russian Radical Right and the War in Ukraine: A Zealous Avant Garde, Dissident Voices, and Their Audience

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Marlene Laruelle

On how the war has opened new avenues for the Russian Radical Right to be heard by a broader public opinion, as their websites and social media platforms have seen greater engagement.
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So, Is Russia Fascist Now? Labels and Policy Implications

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Marlene Laruelle

On why the concept of "fascism" is still problematic to define Russia as a regime and a society even after February 24, and the policy implications of such labelling.
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The Wagnerverse: Pop culture and the heroization of Russian mercenaries

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Marlene Laruelle and Kelian Sanz Pascual

The cinematic universe of the PMC Wagner and how pop culture frames are used to promote and celebrate a mercenary realm favorable to Russia.
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Russia’s “conservative turn” after 2012: evidence from the European Social Survey

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Andrey Shcherbak

An exploration of ordinary Russians’ commitment to conservatism using data from European Social Survey, 2010–2018 and revealing a surge in conservative attitudes in 2014–2016 and a steady decline thereafter.
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Manosphere à la russe: The “Male State” as an Ideological and Financial Project

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Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek

A vocal version of the manosphere à la russe has been the group the Male State, which embodied important trends of Russian pre-war society and capitalized on them before being abolished in 2021.
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A Grassroots Conservatism? Taking a Fine-Grained View of Conservative Attitudes among Russians

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Marlene Laruelle

Interpreting Russia’s conservatism exclusively as a top-down phenomenon has obscured the possibility that there might exist a grassroots conservatism founded on very different bases than the state narrative.
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Disinformation and Religion on the Russian Scene: Reactionary Politics and Orthodox Fundamentalism

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Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek

On the divergence between the Russian Orthodox Church’s backing state decisions about lockdowns and vaccination campaigns and the reactionary groups producing conspiracy theories.
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State Ideology, Science, and Pseudoscience in Russia

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Baasanjav Terbish

How the entangled histories of Soviet state ideology, Russian cosmism, and Eurasianism have become embedded into a localist nationalist ideology in Kalmykia.
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Decoding Putin’s Speeches: The Three Ideological Lines of Russia’s Military Intervention in Ukraine

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Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek

How Putin’s February speeches have confirmed a narrative legitimizing the military intervention in Ukraine along three key ideological lines: a historical one, an ethnic one and a political one.
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White Rex, White Nationalism, and Combat Sport

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René Nissen, Kiril Avramov, and Jason Roberts

How the Russian far-right MMA gear and tournament brand White Rex has been able to model and cultivate professionalizing combat sport tournaments and reach out to Western far-right scenes.
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Ideological Complementary or Competition? The Kremlin, the Church, and the Monarchist Idea in Today’s Russia

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Marlene Laruelle

How the relationship between Russian authorities, ideological entrepreneurs, and the Orthodox Church is articulated along a continuum of permanent complementarity and competition in the production of ideologies.
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Making Sense of Russia’s Illiberalism

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Marlene Laruelle

Illiberal views existed in Russian society before being coopted by the regime, and there exists lively schools of thought arguing that the country’s future can be secured only by embracing the illiberal project.
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Elites and Institutions in the Russian Thermidor: Regime Instrumentalism, Entrepreneurial Signaling, and Inherent Illiberalism

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Julian Waller

On why illiberalism in Russia can best be understood as an entrepreneurial behavior by lower-tier elites signaling loyalty and usefulness to the regime center.
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