Introduction: Sunflowers and Social Media
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Johan Andersson introduces the dossier on the war in Ukraine.
War
Camouflaging Ukrainian Women
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Rebecca Adelman argues that news reports about Ukrainian women making camouflage tend to trivialize their contribution
Matter Out of Place: Rewatching Parajanov in 2022
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Catriona Kelly returns to Sergei Parajanov’s Kyiv Frescoes (1966) to find that the film, intended to commemorate ‘the Great Patriotic War’, speaks to the current tragic moment
Creating and Enforcing Moscow’s Aesthetic of War
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Contrasting sanitized representations of the war on buildings in central Moscow with accounts from Ukrainian media, James Gregg looks at the Putin regime’s attempts to control the narrative
Online Patriots and Traitors: The War, Authoritarianism, and State-Sponsored Digital Vigilantism in Russia
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Maxim Alyukov looks at how the Putin regime is encouraging digital vigilantism to crack down on anti-war dissent