The addresses of national leaders can affect their public support and spur changes in the country's economy. To date, very few studies exist establishing these relationships, no research has been done on from Vladimir Putin. In this paper we fill knowledge gap by analysing nationwide phone-ins Putin, a special annual format where he public, using structural topic modelling studying topics over ...

Focusing on the case of ‘Gay Clown Putin’, this article theorizes memes as visual interventions in international politics. While not all are political interventions, Gay Putin is an iconic meme that part response to Russian state-directed homophobia emerged after gay propaganda law was passed 2013. How it has circulated and attention received make apt for exploring challenge national security d...

The article analyzes the results of an all-Ukrainian psycho-semantic survey 1,199 respondents conducted as a part political and semantic monitoring mass consciousness in February 2021. questionnaire, particular, contained statements value content list possible culprits ongoing war Donbas. Citizens mostly recognize Russian government, led by Putin, main culprit. Such blaming is psychologically o...

Putin and Erdoğan’s “beautiful friendship” has been defining Russian–Turkish political, diplomatic economic relations on the one hand, handling of many conflicts, including Syrian civil war, for nearly two decades other. It can be said that in cases, when interests Russian Turkish states clash with each other or there are conflicts principle values, it is presidents who, because their similar h...

Abstract In July 2020, Russian voters gave strong support to a package of constitutional reforms that reconfigured the political system and enshrined social guarantees conservative identity values, consolidating regime has been built over 20-year period. This was achieved through an alteration ‘zeroed’ presidential terms commenced before change, potentially allowing President Vladimir Putin ove...