In this essay, we examine the connections between media use and trust strategies, and the
identity development of the Russian-speaking populations in Estonia and Latvia in the …

Recent research on the acculturation strategies of Russian speakers in Latvia has
demonstrated that there is a high level of support for integration (identifying with both Latvian …

A theoretical and empirical study of discourse among Russian-speakers in Latvia. The
political shocks of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis have been felt in many former Soviet countries …

Finalist, 2021 CESS Book Award The collapse of the Soviet Union famously opened new
venues for the theories of nationalism and the study of processes and actors involved in …

Latvia's Russophones are often seen as a consolidated ethno-linguistic unit. The goal of this
essay is to test this assumption by exploring Russophones' in-group differentiation over an …

The memory of communism remains a defining attribute of post-communist societies. Since
the fall of the Berlin Wall, attitude towards the non-democratic past have been feed into the …

Ethnically divided societies often seek political cohesion by pursuing nationalizing policies.
Latvia has had some experience of this, for example, with the notion that citizens should …

This paper investigates the positions of state policymakers in Latvia on Latvian, English, and
Russian in higher education. By using argumentation analysis, the study explores …

This article focuses on the evolution of Polish minority responses to Lithuanian minority
policies in the post-EU-accession period. State-minority conflicts in Lithuania have not …

This research evaluates the role of public minority language television as an agent of
memory and actor in the achievement of the social cohesion. More precisely, it is focused on …