Direct Connection?
Russia's Ambivalent Friends

Osteuropa 5/2025
Berlin 2025 [ = Osteuropa, 5/2025]
208 pages, 26 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5654-1

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Direct Connection?
  Editorial
• Roland Götz
  “Everything for the Front, Everything for Victory”
  Russia’s Economy at War
• Ilse Kreutzberg
  Russia’s Magnificent 20th Century
  History in Textbooks
• Moritz Florin
  Palimpsest of Protest
  Tbilisi’s Graffiti Landscape in Spring 2025
• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Russia’s War against Ukraine
  Weekly Reports May and June 2025

• "Russia's Friends"

• Prorussisch! Oder nicht ganz?
  Zum Themenschwerpunkt
• Alexandr Osipian
  Donbas, 1991–2014
  Politics, Identity, and the Road to Uprising
• Alexandr Voronovici
  Laboratory for the Russian World
  Self-Image and Nation in Donbas
• Volodymyr Ishchenko, Don Kalb
  From Head to Toe
  A Neo-Marxist Reading of Ukraine
• Petru Negură, Lilian Negura
  Ambivalent Attitudes
  What Moldovans Think about the War in Ukraine
• Aliaksei Bratachkin
  In dubio pro-Russia
  History, Politics, and Dictatorship in Belarus
• Andrey Makarychev
  Multiple Identity or Double Life?
  The Self-Perception of Russians in Estonia
• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Security of Faith
  The Estonian State and the Estonian Orthodox Church
• Filipp Semyonov
  The Politics of Depoliticised
  Kazakhstan’s Russians: Integration or Radicalization?