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“The Blood Will Grow Up Through the Earth:" Cathartic Reimagining in Oksana Vasyakina’s "Wind of Fury"
Vasyakina’s collective body (“our bodies weave together into one cruel black body”) is a nation of Amazons bound not by their subservience, but by their shared experiences and choice to...
Thesis Profile: The Eurovision Song Contest and Russia’s Place in the Fantasy of European Unity
Why should we care about Eurovision, a spectacle of glitter and camp that thumbs its nose at political protest? In order to argue for the significance of the contest, my...
Hip-Hop Lifestyle Branding and Russian Ethno-Nationalism: The Case of Timati
On Vladimir Putin’s sixty-third birthday, Russian rapper and businessman Timur Yunusov — better known by his stage name, “Timati” — released a music video featuring the hook “My best friend...