Sergei Tikhonov and Ksenia Zinder

Alesya Sokolova

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi

Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi

Andrei Gerasimov

Alexander Verkhovsky

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi

Gleb Zvonovsky

Vladimir Zvonovsky

Victor Violier

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi

Elena Koneva

The 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, highlighted the growing significance of TikTok as a platform for global citizen journalism.

Public Sociology Laboratory

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi and Prof. David Lewis

Maxime Audinet

Vladimir Zvonovskiy

Maxime Audinet and Colin Gérard

Yana Kraynova

Dr. Antonio Giustozzi and Prof. David Lewis's report on the shifts in Russian policy in Syria, Mali and the CAR, based on a series of interviews with Wagner personnel and other informed interlocutors.

Nicholas Castillo

This essay is part of a collaborative project between the Russia Program and Perito, an online media platform on culture and territories. Through a series of translated interviews and essays, we introduce Perito's content on Russia and Russia's minorities to English-speaking audiences.

Kirill Titaev, Sergey Filippov, Ivan Grek

Katie L. Stewart

Juliette Faure

Nguyen Ba Hai and Kazushige Kobayashi

Bradford Thomas Duplessis

Diana Galeeva

Nivedita Kapoor

Ivan U. Kłyszcz

Nourhan ElSheikh

Alexander Verkhovsky

Iurii Agafonov

Sebastian F. H. Bouma

Natalia Savelyeva

Ankita Dutta

Gijs Kessler

This essay is part of a collaborative project between the Russia Program and Perito, an online media platform on culture and territories. Through a series of translated interviews and essays, we introduce Perito's content on Russia and Russia's minorities to English-speaking audiences.

Dr Janko Šćepanović

Economist Vadim Grishin challenges the idea of Russia’s successful turn toward the Global South and explores the limits, both economic and political, of this rebranding, which Grishin doubts will help Russia to reintegrate into the world.

Boris Knorre

Andrey Tarasov

Dr. Sanat Kushkumbayev and Aigerim Bakhtiyarova

Ever since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow’s main partners in the Middle East—Iran and Syria—have largely backed Putin’s war effort.

This essay is part of a collaborative project between the Russia Program and Perito, an online media platform on culture and territories. Through a series of translated interviews and essays, we introduce Perito's content on Russia and Russia's minorities to English-speaking audiences.

The Ukraine War seemed impossible to many, but on a symbolic level, the grounds for the conflict have been simmering for decades. This is what journalist, media researcher and political scientist Egor Sennikov believes. In Perito's piece, he explains what memorial politics are and how monuments, graves of unknown soldiers, and official statements by regime-backing ideologists have made Russia's aggressive foreign policy a logical and inevitable conclusion.

PS LAB Team

Chimiza Lamazhaa

Asel Doolotkeldieva

David Lewis

This essay is part of a collaborative project between the Russia Program and Perito, an online media platform on culture and territories. Through a series of translated interviews and essays, we introduce Perito's content on Russia and Russia's minorities to English-speaking audiences.

Perito continues its new series with anthropologist Dmitriy Oparin, researcher from the Passages laboratory (Bordeaux Montaigne University) and co-creator of the podcast Tozhe Rossia (“Russia Too”). In our second piece, we’re talking about the Tatar language. Director of the House of Tatar Books, founder of the Giylem Project and Tatar language teacher Aidar Shaikhin spoke with us about the potential of receiving a higher education in Tatar, various struggles the language faces within the republic, and his Tatar-speaking world.

Maria Engström on how esoteric radical conservatism that mushroomed in late Soviet period after the collapse of the USSR have influenced the Z-turn of Russian ideology and culture after February 24, 2022.

There are many different field researchers working in Russia—anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, sociolinguists and others. Perito, along with anthropologist Dmitry Oparin, is publishing a new series of articles where they will regularly talk with different specialists about how their work is changing. Each interview is a story about a facet of Russian life today. The first article is devoted to language. Dmitry Oparin spoke with sociolinguist Vlada Baranova (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies) about the politicization of language activism and the importance of linguistic democratization, and whether the Russian state really poses a danger to minority languages.

Irina Meyer-Olimpieva

Asel Doolotkeldieva

by Kevin Limonier

by Asel Doolotkeldieva

by Paul Goode

Arzamas explores Inuit culture in Chukotka, Alaska and Greenland and the adaptability of Inuit languages and culture while looking at food as a key component of the relationship with their ancestral land.

Arzamas tells the story of the Muslim community in St Petersburg, which prefigured today’s flourishing urban Russian Islam outside its traditional regions.

Arzamas explores the history of Nizhny Novgorod, a city historically known for its business dynamism, fairs and exhibitions.

Arzamas invites us to rediscover Russia’s conquest of the Caucasus and the bloody Caucasian wars through Ossetian, Chechen, Lezgin, Terek Cossack and Pontic Greek songs

Makers of Russia is a podcast bringing “out of the underground” the creative class of Siberian big and small cities and showing how art and culture, nature and history are interrelated.

A new platform for expressing ecological concerns and how the Russian authorities are using the “special military operation” as an excuse to ignore environenmental legislation.

by Edward C. Holland and Elvira Churyumova

The media Daptar is a platform for women from the Caucasus to share their stories – often their family difficulties, sometimes their success – and a new place to address the idea of Caucasian feminism.

Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester

“According to the results, perhaps the most popular image of the future was interacting people or hands, displaying the equality of power and society.”

Alexander Cooley explains that impressed by the West unity, we overlooked the dilemmas and balancing acts that a lot of the Eurasian states, governments, and actors have had to make in response to the war.

Sarah Fainberg and Celine Marange argue that Russia's wartime violence toward Ukrainian civilians has been multidimensional, deriving from both top-down and grassroots enablers.