Maria Engström on the normalisation of Russian queer culture and the privatisation of transgressive aesthetics by the cultural mainstream
Culture and education
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Natalia Forrat on how state support programmes to leading universities have stunted their political solidarity and autonomy
Dmitry Oparin has been studying the social dynamics of Muslim communities across Siberia. In this article, he draws on his recent field research in Tomsk, Irkutsk and elsewhere to outline the contours of Siberian Muslim life in 2019.
Alisa Shishkina on women’s departments at Islamic universities in Dagestan
Margarita Zavadskaya on conducting political research in authoritarian systems
Part five of ‘Safety first’: security, threats and academia
Maria Engstrom on political visuality and camp aesthetics as a new phenomenon of Russian pop culture
Yampolskaya’s appointment is a cosmetic rearrangement of officials to stir fresh intrigue
Post-actionism as the aesthetics of Putin’s fourth term
The ideas of counter-cultural figures from the Perestroika years are taking on a new social and political significance in contemporary Russian society
Why the Kremlin is fascinated by classical antiquity
Conservative mobilization and sexualization of the nation