The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past
In her latest blogpost, MEMOCRACY Polish team RA Anastasiia Vorobiova explains, why Russian policies of mnemonic indoctrination call for taking educational rights seriously and recognising children’s rights to freedom from undue interferences in their individual stance.
Prof. Maria Mälksoo and Dr Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS) gave an interview to Prof. Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University) on the role of the past in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The interview was published in the Estonian cultural weekly newspaper Sirp on 17 November 2023 and is available here (in Estonian).The interview drew on their respective keynote talks at the Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition conference at Tallinn University in September 2023.
In the article for Russland-Analysen, researchers Andrii Nekoliak (Dutch Team of the MEMOCRACY) and Elizaveta Klochkova (OVD-Info), describe the practice of application of the Russian 2014 “memory law” (Article 354.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). The authors assess recent prosecutorial decisions to initiate charges for ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ against individuals in Russia. They point to dubious, controversial nature of such legal practice.
In her article Anastasiia Vorobiova describes educational reforms enterering into force since 01 September 2023 and how they will influence educational rights of Russian children.
MEMOCRACY team member Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė has published a blog post on challenging the ‚Post-Soviet‘ label and colonial mindsets. For Lithuania and the Baltic region at least, the NATO Summit in Vilnius was a chance to emphasize the strong European identity and to challenge the deep colonial mindsets, which overlooks Eastern European perspectives in favor of those built in Moscow since the beginning of the 20th century.
In a new blog post for Verfassungsblog, researchers Andrii Nekoliak (Dutch Team of the MEMOCRACY) and Elizaveta Klochkova (OVD-Info), describe how the Russian Federation is using its “memory law” to put pressure on potential critics of the Russian attack on Ukraine. This Russian law is used to create a mood of paranoia and fear among the population, and a feeling as if the country were in a besieged fortress. The authors think that Russian regime may increasingly use Article 354.1 to purge anti-war dissent.
The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe:
Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past
In her latest blogpost, MEMOCRACY Polish team RA Anastasiia Vorobiova explains, why Russian policies of mnemonic indoctrination call for taking educational rights seriously and recognising children’s rights to freedom from undue interferences in their individual stance.
Prof. Maria Mälksoo and Dr Tatiana Zhurzhenko (ZOiS) gave an interview to Prof. Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University) on the role of the past in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The interview was published in the Estonian cultural weekly newspaper Sirp on 17 November 2023 and is available here (in Estonian).The interview drew on their respective keynote talks at the Post-Socialist Memory Cultures in Transition conference at Tallinn University in September 2023.
In the article for Russland-Analysen, researchers Andrii Nekoliak (Dutch Team of the MEMOCRACY) and Elizaveta Klochkova (OVD-Info), describe the practice of application of the Russian 2014 “memory law” (Article 354.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). The authors assess recent prosecutorial decisions to initiate charges for ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ against individuals in Russia. They point to dubious, controversial nature of such legal practice.
In her article Anastasiia Vorobiova describes educational reforms enterering into force since 01 September 2023 and how they will influence educational rights of Russian children.
MEMOCRACY team member Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė has published a blog post on challenging the ‚Post-Soviet‘ label and colonial mindsets. For Lithuania and the Baltic region at least, the NATO Summit in Vilnius was a chance to emphasize the strong European identity and to challenge the deep colonial mindsets, which overlooks Eastern European perspectives in favor of those built in Moscow since the beginning of the 20th century.
In a new blog post for Verfassungsblog, researchers Andrii Nekoliak (Dutch Team of the MEMOCRACY) and Elizaveta Klochkova (OVD-Info), describe how the Russian Federation is using its “memory law” to put pressure on potential critics of the Russian attack on Ukraine. This Russian law is used to create a mood of paranoia and fear among the population, and a feeling as if the country were in a besieged fortress. The authors think that Russian regime may increasingly use Article 354.1 to purge anti-war dissent.
