The Moscow street demonstrations of 2011–12 were the largest public gatherings in Russia
since the collapse of the Soviet Union. They were also the largest-ever gathering of …

This paper argues that the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, represented a soft power
attempt to introduce a new conception of “Russian-ness” to both domestic and international …

Russia's accelerating authoritarian turn has not ignored the internet, and in recent years, the
Russian state has clamped down on internet activities that diverge from the statist line …

The article explores the online memory discourse of the Russian protest movement of 2011-
2012 through an investigation of the LiveJournal blog of Aleksei Naval'nyi. Based on a …

PREFACE Politics is pretty high energy. In that spirit, in-depth research around The CNN
Effect 2.0 demanded an unbroken engagement in the storm of unprecedented issues, trends …