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Seminar about Russian censorship and anti-war activism
Online seminar on April 24, 2023, 16:00-18:00
Natalia Kovyliaeva (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies) will give a lecture "Russian Anti-War Activism, Civil Society and (Self-)Censorship in Times of Russia’s War in Ukraine"
Since the re-start of Russia’s war in Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, the political repressions against Russian civil society, activists, and independent media have increased. The invasion has brought more censorship and self-censorship into the activists’ lives and forced them to find new strategies and tactics for activism or even to flee the country due to changing political realms.
The upcoming discussion will focus on how these new restrictive measures and laws had impacted and transformed activism in Russia, based on the illustration of some cases, such as feminist and human rights activism, and how the repressions before the war had created a ground for new prosecutions.
In addition, we will discuss how the new censorial measures have influenced activists’ biographies and identities while they try to continue to be activists both inside and outside of Russia, use new creative tactics of protest to overcome censorship and avoid repressions, and activists’ dilemmas arising from these balancing between the censorship and the right for freedom of speech
Finally, we will reflect on the potential implications of these developments on Russian civil society and activism in general, as well as their future trajectories and challenges that the current situation might bring.
Seminar via Teams
More about the seminar here
Contact: sergei.troitskii@folklore.ee
The seminar is supported by the ELM research project EKM 8-2/20/3.
