Unboxing Russia is an independent podcast by Ekaterina Schulmann, a Russian political scientist based in Berlin, in conversation with her co-host Pradnya Bivalkar, an Indian-German scholar of media, cultural and political studies. Together every two weeks they explore the dynamics of Russian politics, dissecting government policies, bureaucratic processes, and shifting norms and rules.
Ekaterina Schulmann is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin, a lecturer at the Freie Universitat, and a professor at the Maqsut Narikbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. She is the author of the books "Legislation as a Political Process" (2013), "Practical Political Science: A Guide to Contact with Reality" (2018) and The Return of the State: Political History of the 2000s" (2023).
Pradnya Bivalkar holds a PhD from the University of Tübingen in Media Studies and is a scholar on Modern India. She is also the author of the book “The Becoming of a Hero” (2023).
Unboxing Russia. By Ekaterina Schulmann
For the text-oriented: a coherent and detailed retelling of my remarks at the Munich Security Conference by the German magazine Focus. Why the greatest danger to the system is the system itself: "an autophagous machine" in a structured format. For those who read German (or trust their browser’s translation tools, who work wonders these days).
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО] НОРМА ПРИЗНАНА НЕЗАКОННОЙ РЕШЕНИЕМ ЕСПЧ
www.focus.de/politik/ausland/maschine-frisst-sich-…
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Unboxing Russia. By Ekaterina Schulmann
Here is the 'State of Russia' session from the Munich Security Conference. While the video mysteriously cuts in mid-session, it does so just as I began my contribution. We discussed the 'machine eating itself' and the testing of the limits of autocratic resilience.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО] НОРМА ПРИЗНАНА НЕЗАКОННОЙ РЕШЕНИЕМ ЕСПЧ
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Unboxing Russia. By Ekaterina Schulmann
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И (ИЛИ) РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ [ФИО] ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА [ФИО] НОРМА ПРИЗНАНА НЕЗАКОННОЙ РЕШЕНИЕМ ЕСПЧ
For my dear English-speaking readers: spending the second week of December in London on Pushkin House business and combining the pleasant with the exceedingly pleasant, on the 13th of December I will be opening the Pushkin House Christmas book fair. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the Pushkin House bookshop. It has long been selling books about Russia in English. Now, the collection has expanded to include books in Russian - fiction, non-fiction, scholarly works, for both adults and children.
The kind organisers have granted me the opportunity to fulfil a childhood dream (which, naturally, involved working in a bookshop and living there as well): at the opening, I shall be selling books! From 4 p.m. until late. A minor complication is that I never quite learned to count when I first conceived this childhood dream, and I haven't acquired the skill since. But no matter, happiness does not lie in arithmetic (I hope the accounting department shares this view) - we shall manage to sell something. They also promise a bar serving mulled wine, which should enliven the proceedings. You can reserve a time slot via the link to ensure everything runs smoothly:
www.pushkinhouse.org/whats-on/events/1906
The book fair will run from the 13th to the 20th of December.
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