A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics

This article explores the features of the implementation of individual parliamentary rights by members of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian legislative assembly. The relevance of the study is since in recent years there has been a transformation in informal practices of political influence on parliamentarians. In this sense, the object of the study was the analysis of individual legal norms, the regulations of the Federation Council and the practice of holding parliamentary hearings. The authors focused on the negative consequences expressing the responsibility of senators, considering the ambiguous statutory regulation of such measures in modern Russian politics. During the development of the scope of activities carried out by the upper house of the Federal Assembly, the reasons by which its members could lose their powers were significantly expanded. By way of conclusion, it was noted that, despite the rarity of the application of such sanctions, the authors recorded a systematization of forms and measures of responsibility used for political purposes. Such tendencies create artificial barriers to the implementation of certain senatorial powers and acquire a political character.

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Conceptual problems of modern Russian symbolic policy in preserving the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War

Journal of Political Research ◽

10.12737/2587-6295-2020-14-24 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 14-24

Author(s):

Mihail Martynov

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Western Europe ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Comparative Approach ◽

World War ◽

Politics Of Memory ◽

Political Actors ◽

History Of ◽

Russian Politics ◽

Modern Russian

The article attempts to explain the problems faced by modern Russian politics of memory in connection with falsifications of the history of World War II. Attention is drawn to the reasons for the spread in the public mind of the opinion of the equal responsibility of Germany and the USSR in starting a war. It is shown that the reason for the difficulties of the Russian symbolic policy is the lack of a coherent theoretical construct that allows a logically consistent interpretation of the events of the political history of the first half of the twentieth century. It points to the uncritical acceptance by the Russian political science of the theory of totalitarianism and insufficient attention to the laws of the formation of fascist regimes in Western Europe. It is concluded that inclusion in the world economic system under the conditions of the A historical and comparative approach, comparing the features of using various conceptual foundations of events at the beginning of World War II, depending on the interests and goals of political actors. West inevitably turns out to be supplemented by the loss of sovereignty in the scientific and theoretical sphere.

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Local Representations of Evenkiness and Managing Identities among Evenki Adolescents in Buryatia

Inner Asia ◽

10.1163/22105018-12340091 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 274-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Svetlana Huusko

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Political Context ◽

Ethnic Identities ◽

Indigenous Identity ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Russian Politics ◽

Indigenous Adolescents ◽

Local Representations ◽

Modern Russian

AbstractThis article explores Evenki adolescents’ response to Russian representations of indigeneity in Buryatia (Russia) to gain an understanding of how Indigenous adolescents negotiate their space and identity in the context of local representations of Evenkiness. I position indigenous identity within social interactions. In Russia, these relations are not only political in nature, but also are located within a set of institutionally sanctioned dominant discourses and stereotypes based on them. The results show that Evenki adolescents in Nizhneangarsk often employ a strategy of managing ethnic identities, which could be viewed as a product of cultural-political context, formed during the Soviet Union and reinforced by modern Russian politics. It is a product of marginalisation and manifestation of assimilation of the Evenkis.

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