An interview by Mario Corti to RFE-RL Russian Service. War and Culture: on which side would be today Aleksandr Pushkin, Fiodor Dostoevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Ukrainian Refugees in Italy. Italian official position on Russia's... more
An interview by Mario Corti to RFE-RL Russian Service. War and Culture: on which side would be today Aleksandr Pushkin, Fiodor Dostoevsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Ukrainian Refugees in Italy. Italian official position on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainska journalister och kulturarbetare kommer att bli ett huvudmål för Ryssland. Det säger medieforskaren Roman Horbyk vid Södertörns högskola som själv just nu befinner sig i huvudstaden Kiev. – De kommer att bli offer för... more
Ukrainska journalister och kulturarbetare kommer att bli ett huvudmål för Ryssland. Det säger medieforskaren Roman Horbyk vid Södertörns högskola som själv just nu befinner sig i huvudstaden Kiev.
– De kommer att bli offer för förföljelse om Ryssland ockuperar stora delar av landet.
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kyiv Government began mobilising the civilian population against Russian forces through forced conscription and the provision of weapons to any civilian who wished to fight against the... more
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Kyiv Government began mobilising the civilian population against Russian forces through forced conscription and the provision of weapons to any civilian who wished to fight against the invasion. Initially, the mass paramilitarisation of the civilian population brought limited success against Russian forces with large civilian militias complementing professional Ukrainian forces during the conflict. However, there are costs as well as benefits to integrating civilian militias into an inter-state conflict.
This article explores the pros and cons of mass paramilitarisation during the Russo-Ukraine War. A similar piece was recently published in the Small Wars Journal.
Mykola Riabchuk. «Khokhols», «Little Russians» and «Banderites»: Russian Stereotypes of Ukrainians and Their Political Instrumentalization. The paper contends that the Russian stereotypes of Ukrainians reflect unequal relations between... more
Mykola Riabchuk. «Khokhols», «Little Russians» and «Banderites»: Russian Stereotypes of Ukrainians and Their Political Instrumentalization. The paper contends that the Russian stereotypes of Ukrainians reflect unequal relations between the two nations deter- mined by the imperial status of one of them and subaltern status of the other. Two major stereotypes are singled out and analyzed as ideolo- gical and discursive tools of imperial dominance – those of backward, uneducated «khokhols» and of more literate but ideologically sub- versive «banderites». Political instrumentalization of these stereotypes during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war and Ukrainian response it are examined in the last part of the paper. Key words: colonialism, ethnic stereotypes, political propaganda, Russo-Ukrainian war.
