Lilia Sablina

• PhD student in International Relations
• PhD Student at Central European University

Over the past 15 years, the relationship between illiberal European actors and Russia has become increasingly intertwined. Russia has cultivated these relationships, viewing illiberal actors as a means of influencing Europe. Despite the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which could have been considered a critical juncture, some Europ...

This article examines the mobilisation of minority groups along ethnic and national lines through social media, an area that has not been fully explored. The study analyses the case of Russian-speaking minority members who were mobilised in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 via the messaging app Telegram. By taking a bottom-up pers...

Starting from 2015, the Russian-speaking residents in Germany have expressed their anti-refugee position in the form of rallies and rising voting support for the right-wing populist party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Due to the absence of social cues, unlimited space, immediate responses, and minimal censorship online, platforms for communic...

В настоящей статье предлагается на основе анализа произведений современных бурятских авторов и глубинных интервью с писателями, издателями и лингвистами проследить за взаимовлиянием и взаимопроникновением сетевой и «бумажной» литературы, а также определить координаты Бурят-Монголии в глобальных языковых и исторических пространствах и их онлайн и оф...

This article couples framing analyses with social identity issues to provide a critical discourse analysis of the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony, along with the various media depictions surrounding it. Moreover, it explores the idea of 'derzhava' as a rediscovered political narrative/frame in Russian symbolic politics. We argue that images and sym...

Comparing texts published by Buryat, Khanty, Evenki, Itelmen, and Koryak writers between 1990 and 2014, the article positions indigenous North Asian literature within the global postcolonial and postsocialist discourses. Many authors focus on the experiences of their communities in the Second World, interpreting the Soviet past and its legacies. So...

The article aims to examine the Soviet nationalities policy as a com- plex phenomenon with its definite logic and content. Authors identify several main cycles of national policy and apply the «pendulum» concept to reveal its «hard» and «soft» waves. This argument is tested using the data of the official Soviet statistics in three dimensions: repub...

Comparing texts published by Buryat, Khanty, Evenki, Itelmen, and Koryak writers between 1990 and 2014, the article positions indigenous North Asian literature within the global postcolonial and postsocialist discourses. Many authors focus on the experiences of their communities in the Second World, interpreting the Soviet past and its legacies. So...