{"id":4864,"date":"2021-04-13T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T07:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T08:21:02","slug":"critical-commentary-on-the-discursive-state-of-affairs-in-russia-prior-to-this-years-duma-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/04\/13\/critical-commentary-on-the-discursive-state-of-affairs-in-russia-prior-to-this-years-duma-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical commentary on the discursive state of affairs in Russia prior to this year&#8217;s Duma elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PhD Researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/brussels\/people\/2958\/baumann-mario\">Mario Baumann<\/a> contributed an analytical commentary to the latest issue of the <a href=\"https:\/\/css.ethz.ch\/en\/publications\/rad.html\">Russian Analytical Digest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/css.ethz.ch\/en\/publications\/rad\/details.html?id=\/p\/r\/e\/p\/preparing_for_the_parliamentary_election\">Russian Analytical Digest No. 266 &#8211; Preparing for the Parliamentary Elections of 2021: Russian Politics and Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mario Baumann&#8217;s commentary <a href=\"https:\/\/css.ethz.ch\/content\/dam\/ethz\/special-interest\/gess\/cis\/center-for-securities-studies\/pdfs\/RAD266.pdf\">Fighting for Discursive Hegemony: The Kremlin&#8217;s Foundation is Shaking<\/a> in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Kremlin\u2019s discursive hegemony is shrinking, especially among the young<\/li>\n<li>Two main challenges to authority: domestic dissent &amp; Western alternative narratives<\/li>\n<li>Kremlin\u2019s strategy: linking domestic dissent with \u2018external threat\u2019 to legitimise increasing repression at home &amp; suppress Western discourse<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; PhD Researcher Mario Baumann contributed an analytical commentary to the latest issue of the Russian Analytical Digest. It was published on Russian Analytical Digest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/2021\/04\/13\/critical-commentary-on-the-discursive-state-of-affairs-in-russia-prior-to-this-years-duma-elections\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51111,"featured_media":4866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/brussels-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}