Tora Berge Naterstad
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Tora Berge Naterstad was a Researcher at NUPI
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Putin and Covid-19
We're taking a closer look at the Russian regime and the Covid-19 pandemic.These last few weeks we've seen daily records of new cases of Covid-19...
How important are traditional values for Putin’s support?
How important are traditional values for Putin’s support? How are they related to the war in Ukraine? And what does the future look like for the P...
Russian youth, war, and independent journalists in exile
The Russian online magazine DOXA is this year's winner of the Norwegian Student Peace Prize. The committee highlights their work exposing corrupti...
Locating missing persons in Ukraine
How do you find missing persons in the midst of war? Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP...
NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict
What Now, Russologists?
Russia’s war against Ukraine has enormous consequences. First and foremost for Ukraine, but also for Russia and its neighboring states. The war has not only changed European and Norwegian security and foreign policies, it will also have a significant impact on Norwegian research on and knowledge about Russia. The opportunities for doing research in Russia have become more limited in recent years. After February 2022, it has become impossible. At the same time, knowledge about Russia is important for Norway, which shares a border and administers critical resources in cooperation with Russia. This will continue to be the case. The question now is how this knowledge is to be created given that the framework conditions under which Norwegian research on Russia has been produced during the last 30 years have dramatically changed. How are we going to update Norwegian knowledge about Russia in the coming years? What methods and data are available, and what can we expect from these?
Post Post-Sovjet, stil og opprør: Symbolikk og subversiv nasjonalisme i Gosja Rubtsjinskijs «nye Russland»
This article explores the resonance enjoyed by streetwear designer Gosha Rubchinskiy among young Russians, and the extensive network that has emerged under his wings and refers to itself as ‘the new Russia’. Analysis of Rubchinskiy’s work, with Dick Hebdige’s semiotic approach as the epistemological context, supplemented by insights from Simon Reynolds, Michel Foucault and Michel Maffesoli, reveals a continuous deconstruction of the Russian regime’s hegemonic narrative of Russianness – so-called ‘Putinism’. At the same time, Rubchinskiy constructs a countercultural form of Russian national belonging, one with room to accommodate those who feel alienated by mainstream Russian national- ism. From a social science perspective, a countercultural inclusive nation-building project is in itself a paradox – so how are we to understand Gosha Rubchinskiy’s ‘new Russia’?
Russia’s New ‘War Nationalism’: How Nationalist Rhetoric Prepared the Ground for the Invasion of Ukraine
Ahead of Russia’s war on Ukraine, various nationalist tropes have gradually been incorporated into Russian official rhetoric. What can studying the regime’s emergent ‘war nationalism’ tell us about the identity dimension of the current conflict?
Podcast: How important are traditional values for Putin’s support?
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Legitimacy of Putin’s Regime: A Biopolitical Perspective
Russia is currently experiencing record numbers of COVID-19-related deaths. The pandemic has put medical knowledge at the very centre of politics around the world and Russia is no exception. The current debate in Russia is influenced by what appears to be a new regime of medical governance combined with ‘pandemic authoritarianism’.