Weer een mooie recensie van Poetin’s revanchistische droom.
Slavdom www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Great review of several outstanding books on Russia and its now dominating ideology.
Great piece which all experts should read.
Great analysis of a very important topic.
Some discussions during the excellent BASEES 2026 conference last week in Birmingham.
Nice review. Hopefully this book will also be translated from the original Dutch into an English version to be shared with a wider international audience.
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Lees dit artikel op Trouw www.trouw.nl/buitenland/h...
Het gebruik/ misbruik van geschiedenis om politieke doeleinden is erg in trek bij het huidige Russische regime.
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Интересно.
Russia's assassins unit 795 has been extensively described by The Insider:
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Meer religieuze geletterdheid bij de overheid. Is dat nodig? — Motie moet ook leiden tot dialoog en jezelf in de ander verplaatsen www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/meer-...
Een goed begrip van religieuze en andere culturele denkwerelden is broodnodig als je in het buitenland effectief wilt kunnen opereren.
Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto or...
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Sinds kort is het in Rusland strafbaar om ‘de genocide van het Sovjetvolk’ te ontkennen. Een relatief nieuw historisch begrip dat onderdeel lijkt van de pogingen van Moskou om de eigen geschiedenis te...
Journalists from The Insider have exposed the structure and command of the new Russian special forces unit Center 795, which emerged during the full-scale war. It includes elite operatives from […]
The Kremlin regards democracies as a direct threat to its survival. Its goal is not just to seize territory, but to conquer minds and undermine the foundations of Europe’s collective identity ⬇️
Motie moet ook leiden tot dialoog en jezelf in de ander verplaatsen Afgelopen woensdag stemde de Tweede Kamer voor de motie om de functie van speciaal gezant voor religie en godsdienstvrijheid structu...
Beatrice de Graaf en Niels Drost laten zien dat we Poetins historische verzinsels serieus moeten nemen
a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict
”In fact he refers substantively to the czars in more than 3,000 addresses. “Of course he also refers to the Second World War, and he does refer to Stalin—but not that much. Far more often he talks about the great Russian czars.”
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The four big challenges in studying Russia since 2022
Well, it's not really four, but 'access', 'self-censorship', '(un)representative data', and 'ethics' are a decent approximation. A post about some talks at BASEES 2026. postsocialism.org/2026/04/13/t...
European Policy Institute in Kyiv (EPIK)
A Birmingham sculpture. Credit: Oosoom – Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, I just returned from the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies where I …
