ABSTRACT
The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral part of Europe. The latter is, at least, wished by many Russian citizens.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|13 pages
Master Signifier in decay
Evolution of Russian political discourse since Putin's comeback
chapter 2|37 pages
New media and political protest
The formation of a public counter-sphere in Russia, 2008–12
chapter 3|11 pages
Russian identity after the fall of the USSR
From generation “П” to generation “T” (“transnational”)?
chapter 4|14 pages
Foreign policies of Putin's regime
Strategies of politicization and depoliticization
chapter 7|21 pages
Modernization in Russian relations with EU member states
Conventional goal, new means, unexpected consequences?
chapter 9|24 pages
From multi-vector to vectorless
Ukraine's policy towards Russia and the European Union
chapter 12|30 pages
Another face of glocalization
Cities going international (the case of North-Western Russia)
