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