After completing the course, the students will have an overview of recent societal processes in the Russian Federation.
Preliminary programme:
Social structures
18.9. Harri Melin (TAY): Russian social classes in flux
25.9. Jouko Nikula (Aleksanteri institute): Changing Russian countryside
2.10. Irina Sarno (City of Tampere): Russian managers
Traditional and new media
9.10 Svetlana Pasti (TAY): Comparative view on Russian media
16.10. Period break
23.10 Jukka Pietiläinen (Aleksanteri institute): Freedom of speech in post-Soviet media
30.10 Dmitry Yagodin (TAY): Citizen journalism in Russia
Friday 8.11. at 12-14 Markku Lonkila (TAY): Social media and Russian opposition movement, in Paavo Koli auditorium (please note the different day and place!)
Gender and civil society
13.11. Meri Kulmala (Aleksanteri institute): Women in Russian Civil Society
20.11. Freek van der Vet (HY): Diffusion of human rights in Russia
27.11. Laura Lyytikäinen (HY): Russian oppositional youth movement
4.12. Olga Gurova (HY): Consumption patterns in Russia