Russian World and Other Imaginary Places

Here is the press release for the article by Mikhail Suslov, Crimea Is Ours! Russian Geopolitics and Digital Irony,' Eurasian Geography and Economics 55, no. 6 (2014). http://www.mynewsdesk.com//crimea-is-ours-russian-geopolit

'The Politics of Eurasianism' Workshop (Stockholm 14th-15th May, 2015). Here is the program: DAY I, Thursday, 14th May... 9 am Welcome and Coffee 9.15 - 10.30 Keynote Speech. Prof. Richard Sakwa, University of Kent The Age of Eurasia. Power Shift or Damp Squib 10.30 - 1045 Coffee Break 10.45 - 12.30 Panel 1 Eurasianism, Nationalism and Ideology Igor Torbakov, Uppsala University Defining the ‘True’ Nationalism: Russian Ethnic Nationalists vs. Eurasianists Mark Bassin, Södertörn University Lev Gumilov’s Theoretical Contribution to Neo-Eurasianism Dmitry Shlapentokh, Indiana University Aleksander Dugin and the Time of Trouble: The Paradigms of Russian History 12.30 13.45 Lunch Break 13.45 - 15.30 Panel 2 Culture, Nation and the Uses of Eurasianism Mikhail Suslov, Uppsala University Eurasian Symphony & Other Stories: Geopolitical Themes in Post-Soviet Science Fiction Maria Engström, Dalarna University Militant Aesthetics in Contemporary Russia: from Underground to Mainstream Viktor Shnirel’man, Russian Academy of Sciences Useful Eurasianism: the view from Tatarstan 15.30 15.45 Break 15.45 17.30 Panel 3 Eurasianism Beyond Russia Balazs Trencsenyi, Central European University Rise of Turanism and the Hungarian right’s reception of Dugin Luca Anceschi, University of Glasgow Regime Neo-Eurasianism and Anti-Imperial Foreign Policy in Kazkhstan Emer Eren, Marmara University Eurasianism in Turkey: a Formal Geopolitics Perspective DAY II, Friday, 15th May 10.00 12.00 Panel 4 Eurasianism and Russia’s Foreign Policy Irina Kotkina, Södertörn University The New Media - Popular Blogs Between the Eurasian Union and the Russian World Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University Is the Eurasian Union Eurasianist Gonzalo Pozo, King’s College London Russian Foreign Policy and Plastic Eurasianism: the case of the EEU Anton Shekhovtsov, Legatum Institute NeoEurasianism and the Russian-Ukrainian War 12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break 13.00 15.00 Concluding Discussion: The Future of Eurasianism

Here is the translation of Mikhail Suslov's paper 'Holy Rus: The Geopolitical Imagination in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church,' Russian Social Science Review 56, no. 3 (2015): 43-62. http://www.tandfonline.com///10.1080/10611428.2015.1070631

Marlene Laruelle's paper 'The Russian World: Russia’s Soft Power and Geopolitical Imagination' is here: http://globalinterests.org//the-russian-world-russias-sof/

Here come pictures (somewhat belatedly) from our Eurasia 2.0 conference (http://www.ucrs.uu.se/eurasia_/) - thanks to Jevgenija Gehsbarga.