Muslims in contemporary Russia

Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia

ForbiddEn dandyisM: iMPEriaL aEsthEtiCs in ContEMPorary russia

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News Product ion in Contemporary Russia

j This article offers a new approach to power relations in the sphere of mass media production in Russia. The analysis focuses on television news – an object of the fiercest struggle among various agents of power (including news producers themselves). Unlike previous works, mostly done as institutional analysis, the proposed approach emphasizes the informal and dynamic character of these power ...

Islam and Muslims in Russia Since the Collapse of the Soviet Union

After the collapse of the Soviet Union sovereign Islamic states arose in the traditional Islamic regions of the USSR, although Islam was not declared to be an official or state religion in the constitutions of these states, since, as before, religion was separated from the state. These states were: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. With the exception o...

Orthodoxy and the Search for Identity in Contemporary Russia

This paper examines important issues associated with the search for national identity in contemporary Russia following the disappearance of the Soviet Union, particularly the contribution of Orthodoxy to that discussion. It considers the historical context in which the debate about identity has taken place and the reasons for the re-emergence of Orthodoxy as a significant marker of identity. Th...