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Violent Affections uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of 'gay propaganda' law, the book shows how violent acts are framed in emotional language by perpetrators during their criminal trials. It then utilises an original methodology of studying 'legal memes' and argues that these individual affective states are directly connected to the political violence aimed at queer lives more generally. The main aim of Violent Affections is to explore the social mechanisms and techniques that impact anti-queer violence evidenced in the reviewed cases. Alexander Sasha Kondakov expands upon two sets of interdisciplinary literature - queer theory and affect theory - in order to conceptualise what is referred to as neo-disciplinary power. Taking the empirical observations from Russia as a starting point, he develops an original explanation of how contemporary power relations are changing from those of late modernity as envisioned by Foucault's Panopticon to neo-disciplinary power relations of a much more fragmented, fluid and unstructured kind - the Memeticon. The book traces how exactly affections circulate from body to body as a kind of virus and eventually invade the body that responds with violence. In this analytic effort, it draws on the arguments from memetics - the theory of how pieces of information pass on from one body to another as they thrive to survive by continuing to resonate. This work makes the argument truly interdisciplinary.

Russia (Federation)

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In this book, Vladimir Gel'man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders of these countries establish and maintain rules, norms, and practices that serve their own self-interests. Gel'man considers bad governance as a primarily agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon. He addresses the issue of causes and mechanisms of bad governance in Russia and beyond from a different scholarly optics, which is based on a more general rationale of state-building, political regime dynamics, and policy-making. He argues that although these days, bad governance is almost universally perceived as an anomaly, at least in developed countries, in fact human history is largely a history of ineffective and corrupt governments, while the rule of law and decent state regulatory quality are relatively recent matters of modern history, when they emerged as side effects of state-building. Indeed, the picture is quite the opposite: bad governance is the norm, while good governance is an exception. The problem is that most rulers, especially if their time horizons are short and the external constraints on their behavior are not especially binding, tend to govern their domains in a predatory way because of the prevalence of short-term over long-term incentives. Contemporary Russia may be considered as a prime example of this phenomenon. Using an analysis of case studies of political and policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Gel'man discusses the logic of building and maintenance of politico-economic order of bad governance in Russia and paths of its possible transformation in a theoretical and comparative perspective.

Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government

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Twenty scholars from Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine and the US examine some of the main themes of Gary Marker's scholarship on Russia - literacy, education, and printing; gender and politics; the importance of visual sources for historical study; and the intersections of religious and political discourse in Imperial Russia.

Marker, Gary, --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia --- History --- History.

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"Daleki Wschód jest jednym z większych regionów fizycznogeograficznych Rosji. Uznaje się go za terytorium geostrategiczne o kluczowym znaczeniu dla zapewnienia realizacji interesów narodowych i bezpieczeństwa narodowego Federacji Rosyjskiej. Obszar Dalekiego Wschodu stanowi - z administracyjnego punktu widzenia - terytorium Dalekowschodniego Okręgu Federalnego. Jest on największym spośród wszystkich ośmiu rosyjskich okręgów federalnych. Daleki Wschód to także otwarte okno na Ocean Spokojny, który wywarł ogromny wpływ na kształtowanie się tego terytorium. Zasadniczym celem monografii jest przedstawienie problematyki dotyczącej rozwoju gospodarczego Dalekiego Wschodu w kontekście zmian, jakie miały miejsce na obszarze zajmowanym w różnych okresach historycznych przez państwo rosyjskie. Praca adresowana jest do szerokiego kręgu odbiorców interesujących się tematyką rozwoju gospodarczego Rosji i rosyjskiego Dalekiego Wschodu.".

Economic history. --- Economic policy. --- Russia (Federation) --- Russian Far East.

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Who decides what in Moscow? The answer is not always "Vladimir Putin". However, when explaining Russia's foreign policy, the consolidation of Putin's autocratic tendencies and his apparent stability despite many economic and political challenges have contributed - at least in the West - to an excessive "Putin-centrism" and the relative neglect of other agents of domestic politics. As a result, many facets of the country's foreign policy decisions are misunderstood or shrouded under a thin veil of vagueness and secrecy.This Report attempts to fill this gap, exploring the evolving distribution of political and economic power under the surface of Putin's leadership to assess the influence of different "lobbies" on Russia's foreign policy. All of the contributions in the volume underline the complexity of Russia's decision-making process beneath the surface of a monolithic and increasingly personalistic government.

Russia (Federation) --- Foreign relations. --- Political science --- Politica Internazionale --- Russia