Workshop Program

Date: 26 September 2025

Location: Freie Universität Berlin, Edwin-Redslob-Straße 29, 14195 Berlin

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9:00 – 9:15 Arrival, Coffee & Snacks

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9:15 – 10:00 Introduction

• Katharina Bluhm & Mihai Varga (Berlin): Conceptual Aspects: What is the Right in Russia?

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10:15 – 13:15 Panel 1

• Andrei Yakovlev (Berlin): Russian Business-Government Relations Before and After 2022: Key Actors and Patterns

• Katharina Bluhm (Berlin): Did the Hard Right Win? Russia’s Warfare state and the Ongoing Battle Over Its Socioeconomic Model.

• Jules Sergei Fediunin (Oslo): “Special Demographic Operation”: How the Ukraine War Has Changed Russia’s Demographic Agenda

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13:15 – 13:30 Poster Session with PhD Students

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13:30 – 14:15 Lunch (Catering Provided)

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14:15 – 16:15 Panel 3

• Alicja Curanovic (Warsaw): The Russian Nationalist Intellectuals’ Idea of Justice After 2022

• Dmitry Uzlaner/Kristina Stoeckl (Berlin and Rome): The Moralist International in Times of War: Ruptures and Continuities in Russia's Traditional Values Agenda

• Mikhail Suslov (Copenhagen): The Role of the Patriotic Bloggers and Military Correspondents as Ideology and Propaganda Mediators

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16:30 – 18:00 Panel 4

• Matthew Blackburn (Uppsala): To the Right of Putin? Wartime Ideological Convergence between the Kremlin and Russia’s “National-Patriots”

• Mihai Varga (Berlin): Russia’s Right and the Near Abroad: The Reach and Channels of a Broken International(ist) Agenda

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Dinner with presenters and discussants

Participants

Presenters, Discussants, and Workshop Participants: Matthew Blackburn, Katharina Bluhm, Alicja Curanovic, Jules Sergei Fediunin, Leonid Kosals, Kristina Stoeckl, Mikhail Suslov, Dmitry Uzlaner, Mihai Varga, Andrei Yakovlev

PhD Students: Olga Kudriavtseva, Alexey Voronkov

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Registration required: mihai.varga@fu-berlin.de