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Gulag Echoes (FI)
Gulag Echoes in the “multicultural prison”: historical and geographical influences on the identity and politics of ethnic minority prisoners in the communist successor states of Russia and Europe
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Lessons of the Recent Past: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons
BY JUDITH PALLOT, PI “GULAGECHOES” In a new article in Riddle, an online journal on Russian affairs, project PI Judith Pallot compares how the current pandemic is unfolding in Russian prisons to past epidemics in recent Russian history. The publication is available in Russian and in English. It is also partly reproduced on the project blog. The Russian prison …Continue reading "Lessons of the Recent Past: From Tuberculosis to COVID-19 in Russia’s Prisons"
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GULAGECHOES Project Team Away Day: Thursday 8th October, 2020, Radisson Blu, Turku
10am-6pm The purpose of the Away Day was for the team to share the results of the fieldwork that they had undertaken during the summer and to discuss the pre-circulated draft articles under preparation for publication. The reports by the team took place against the backdrop of the corona virus pandemic which has wreaked havoc …Continue reading "GULAGECHOES Project Team Away Day: Thursday 8th October, 2020, Radisson Blu, Turku"
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International conference (in Zoom) “Development Strategies for the Baltic Region” September 29, 2020
The Research Coordinator of the project Dr Larisa Kangaspuro gave the presentation “Nordic-Russian cooperation for improvement social inclusion of foreign inmates”. -
Caught in Russia’s Prison-Pandemic Nexus
BY DR. OLGA ZEVELEVA In a new article in Riddle, an online journal on Russian affairs, Dr. Olga Zeveleva analyses the state of Russian prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it to prisons in other European countries. The publication is available in Russian and in English, and is partly reproduced on the project blog. …Continue reading "Caught in Russia’s Prison-Pandemic Nexus"
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Fieldwork trip to Estonia
At the end of July, Project Director Judith Pallot and Postdoctoral Researcher Olga Zeveleva launched fieldwork in Estonia. They spent time in Tallinn and in Jõhvi (Ida-Viru County in north-eastern Estonia), conducting pilot interviews with people who have been to Estonian and Soviet prisons between the 1960s and today, as well as focus groups and …Continue reading "Fieldwork trip to Estonia"