CHAIR
Valerie Zawilski
(U of Western Ontario, Canada)
PAPERS
Matthew Blackburn
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
Domestic Political Legitimacy and Geopolitics in Contemporary Russia:
Papering over the Cracks within the Putin Consensus
Paul Goode
(U of Bath, UK)
David Stroup (U of Oklahoma, US)
Monopoly is the Message: Banal Nationalism and Autocratic Legitimation
Veera Laine
(U of Helsinki, Finland)
Continuities and Changes of the Evolution of Russia’s “Others”
in the Presidential Rhetoric, 2000-2018
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
(King’s College London, UK)
gulnaz.sharafutdinova@kcl.ac.uk
The Politics of Insecure Collective Identity: Lessons From Putin’s Russia
Sergei Fediunin
(INALCO, France)
Populism and Elitism in Today’s Russia,
or When Populism Can Be Good for Democracy
DISCUSSANT
Peter Rutland
(Wesleyan U, US)