On the 5th of June 2024 Tatiana Romashko (MA) has had a public examination of her doctoral thesis in Cultural Policy “Development of Contemporary Russian Cultural Policy: From Liberal Decentralisation towards Conservative Hegemony”. This doctoral project outlines the development of cultural policy in modern Russia in two distinct periods: the post-Soviet era and the period

What: Two thought-provoking roundtable discussions on the “Cultural heritage destruction and cultural mobilisation” and “Military Aesthetics, Historical Mythology and Patriotic Education”. When: 19 – 23 August, 2024 Where: University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Who: Dr. Miia Huttunen, Dr. Oleksandra Gaidai, Dr. Elżbieta Olzacka, Dr. Domenico Valenza, Dr. Nadiia Koval, Denys Tereshchenko, Tatiana Romashko Roundtable 1. (Inter)national Cultural Policy and

What: A thought-provoking roundtable discussion on the “Remnants of the ‘Russian World’ in Europe’s Online and Offline Spaces“. When: April 2024 Where: Cambridge, UK Who: Dr. Jade McGlynn, Dr. Tatiana Golova, Dr. Vera Zvereva, Dr. Kapitolina Fedorova, Tatiana Romashko In recent years, the Kremlin’s promotion of the concept of the ‘Russian world’ has sparked an

We are holding a kick-off workshop for our research project “‘Russian World’ Next Door: Discourses of the Russian Political Communication and Cultural Diplomacy in Finland”. The project will be presented by its Principal Investigator Dr. Vera Zvereva and two project researchers Tatiana Romashko and Rasa Žakevičiūtė. In this workshop, we will talk about the objectives of