Russia
Present-day Russia — imperial patterns, the treatment of minorities, and the concepts that also touch the Tatars.
A psychosocial analysis of Russian culture
A psychosocial analysis of Russian culture examines the cultural-psychological patterns that scholars have observed in Russia's dominant state and political culture, and how histor…
Read →Minority peoples in present-day Russia
The Russian Federation is home to more than 190 peoples, yet as central power tightens and russification continues, the space for minority languages and cultures steadily narrows.…
Read →Russia and its soldiers: the war in Ukraine
This page examines how Russia treats its own soldiers — before and during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine from 2022 — the psychosocial roots of that behaviour, how the Russian m…
Read →Russophobia
Russophobia is a compound of Russo- (Russia, Russians) and -phobia (from the Greek phobos, “fear”, extended to “aversion, hatred”). The word literally denotes fear or aversion towa…
Read →Swan Lake in Russian culture
Swan Lake is Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet — the most famous in the world. In Russian culture it carries two roles that could hardly be further apart: the crown jewel of the imperial…
Read →The Russian military's supply system
The Russian military's supply system has been a source of recurring scandals even in peacetime — before the full-scale war of 2022. Through theft, embezzlement and contracts handed…
Read →Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from the Greek xenos “stranger, foreigner” and phobos “fear”) is an intense dislike, distrust or hostility toward people perceived as foreign or outside one's own group…
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