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On the Heels of a Controversial Election, Russia Grows Increasingly Unfree

Between September 17 and 19, Russians went to the polls to elect the State Duma. The voting period was officially increased to three days and introduced electronic voting for the…

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Third Rome: Will Russia Save Europe From Itself?

From its inception, the Russian state has long used Europe as a measure for itself. In the 19th century, the leading intellectual debate in Russia was between the Slavophiles and the…

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Why Do the Radical Right And Populists In Serbia Celebrate Antifascism?

On May 9, 2018, hundreds of people marched in the Immortal Regiment procession through the center of Belgrade to commemorate the Victory Day. Having emerged as a grassroots initiative in 2012, the…

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A fascist authoritarian Utopia: the Eurosiberian ethnostate for native Europeans

Throughout history, radical and militant social movements hold onto an ideal goal, or Utopia to attract, galvanise, and mobilise followers. These Utopias are made to reverberate with something inherent to…

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6 min

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Is Russia Immune to Anti-Semitism?

A new report on anti-Semitism in Russia for June-September 2020 was published in Moscow in October by the independent Center for Information and Analysis, SOVA. A month earlier, another study by a Russian think…

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5 min

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The German AfD Makes Appeals To Russian-Germans

“We open the borders for migrants, but the doors to Germany are closed for ethnic Germans in crisis regions.” This critical statement on Germany’s recent immigration policy came from Waldemar Herdt, an…

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Can Volodymyr Zelensky Bring Peace to Eastern Ukraine?

Volodymyr Zelensky made a campaign promise to establish peace in eastern Ukraine. The far right will have a say on whether that happens or not. Six years ago, a political…

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4 min

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How proscription can help in the fight against the radical right

In late March 2020, rumours started circulating that the United States was looking for candidate groups to proscribe as part of their efforts against the radical right. In early April,…

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Putin’s Amendments To Russia’s Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism

Amendments expanding Putin’s power and language about the “state-forming role” of the Russian national majority, raises ethno-nationalism concerns. On many occasions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the adoption…

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Russia Needs a New National Idea

After the collapse of the USSR, Russia, abandoning socialism as a path of development, also abandoned communist ideas, but didn’t replace them with new ideology. With the coming to power…

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On the Heels of a Controversial Election, Russia Grows Increasingly Unfree

Third Rome: Will Russia Save Europe From Itself?

Why Do the Radical Right And Populists In Serbia Celebrate Antifascism?

A fascist authoritarian Utopia: the Eurosiberian ethnostate for native Europeans

Is Russia Immune to Anti-Semitism?

The German AfD Makes Appeals To Russian-Germans

Can Volodymyr Zelensky Bring Peace to Eastern Ukraine?

How proscription can help in the fight against the radical right

Putin’s Amendments To Russia’s Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism

Russia Needs a New National Idea

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Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

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