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NORRUSS-Nordområdene og Russland

Nation-building, nationalism and the new 'other' in today's Russia (NEORUSS)

Tildelt: kr 6,3 mill.

The first project workshop was held in Oslo 1-2 February 2013. At the workshop, we hammered out the questionnaire for our survey and discussed the topic and structure of each participant's project article and his/her contribution to the edited volume we will publish. The survey was carried out in June 2013. In 2014 the project secured additional funding (100,000 NOK) from Fritt Ord to carry out a repeat survey to measure changed attitudes in the Russian population after the events in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. This survey was undertaken in November 2014. Several project participants have carried out field work, in the Komi republic, in Moscow, in Krasnodar, and Stavropol Dissemination: As an integrated part of the project we each year arrange four seminars at NUPI about various aspects of contemporary Russian nationalism. By the end of this report period we have held eleven such seminars: Peter Rutland 31 January 2013; Jerry Pankhurst 5 March 2013; Aleksander Verkhovsky 3 September 2013; Marlene Laruelle 28 November 2013; Henry Hale 10 February 2014; Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic 15 May 2014, Emil Pain 22 September 2014; Andreas Umland 28 October 2014; Mikhail Alexseev 13 March 2015; Charles King 10 June 2015; Anastasia Mitrofanova and Natalia Kosmarskaia 22 September 2015. Attendance varied from 35 to 70 participants. On 25 October 2013 the project arranged a one-day seminar at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAT5yn4tMe0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIqGj7pA-_I and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGDtMgAK1A Preliminary findings were also presented at various other conferences: British Association of Slavic and East European Studies Annual convention (BASEES) in Cambridge, April 2014, and the Association for the Study of Nationalities/Central European University (ASN/CEU), June 2014. During the report period, project participants have presented the results at several international conferences/conventions . The most important are: BASEES, Cambridge , 28-30 March 2015 (1 panel); ASN Convention, Columbia University, New York, 23-25 April 2015 (1 panel); and the IX ICCESS Congress, Makuhari, Tokyo, 3-8 August 2015 (2 panels). All project participants are publishing results in peer reviewed journals registered by the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals. A majority has already had their project articles accepted/published. Several project members have also published smaller articles on the internet, in newspapers and elsewhere, largely based on the survey results. The project and its (preliminary) results have been reported in Aftenposten, Klassekampen NRK P2 (Dagsnytt, Dagsnytt 18, Verden på Lørdag), OpenDemocracy Russia, several Russian newspapers, Transitions Online, Johnson's Russia List, Washington Post and the Guardian. Our book The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity, Authoritarianism 2000-2015, will be published by Edinburgh University Press,in January 2016. Russian translations of several of the book chapters are underway.

We will analyze the new preconditions for nation-building in Russia and for the formulation of policies on the 'national question'. Four issues will be targeted. 1. Changes in the state's policies and political signals. We will examine statements by Med vedev and Putin, as well as by leading members of Duma parties and Kremlin policy advisers. In particular, we will analyze the relative strength of state-oriented and ethnicity-oriented vectors in the nationality concept. As target topic we choose to foc us on federal migration policies. To what degree do the state authorities explain to the public that the immigration is an indispensable necessity in the Russian economy? 2. The nationality issue in the opposition. What alternative does the anti-system o pposition represent when it comes to the formulation of a national idea? Is there a tug of war going on in this movement between liberals and nationalists? Most Western researchers have tended to focus on the extreme right. While this should not be ignore d, we believe it is equally important to study attitudes among the pro-Western liberals. Have the liberals formulated their own national idea? 3. The role of the media. Media, and in Russia TV in particular, are crucial in forming popular opinion on s ensitive issues. We will single out for special examination three major TV channels and how they are covering issues of ethnic and national cohesion. In addition we will examine a selection of mainstream newspapers, high-brow elite publications, and popu lar internet sites. 4. Changes in the public mood. Researchers disagree about the strength of support for xenophobic nationalism in Russia and more research is needed in the form of large-scale surveys. This is particularly important in the situation of the recent renewed popular mobilization against the regime. We will conduct a survey with 4,500 respondents using the same polling institute as we used in another NRC funded research project ten years ago.

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