President Vladimir Putin's Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid
display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia's return to great power …

The article looks at Russia's international sports politics from two different perspectives. The
authors discuss sport mega-events as instruments of legitimizing the existing regime and …

In this article we explore the cognitive potential of the intertwined concepts of representation
and performativity for studying a series of sportive and cultural mega events hosted by …

The humanitarian crisis in Syria has fuelled the Circassian issue in Russia. Escaping from
the war, hundreds of Syrian Circassians (Adyghe) chose Russia as their destination …

The traumatic experience of war has played a pivotal role in the history of the Circassians,
an Indigenous people of the North Caucasus who suffered enormous population loss and …

In recent years, due to some contemporary political influences in Russia, Circassian
activists, and some foreign states have proposed that the Circassian exile (forced …

Cherishing environmental values has regularly been used by indigenous peoples as a
strategy for obtaining political recognition and perhaps autonomy. This chapter focuses on …