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Research Groups and Projects
- Cold War Research Group
- Competition in Socialist Society
- Constructing Russian Identity in the Media: Between the History of WW II and the Future of Europeanness
- Cross-Border Crime Prevention and Risk Administration
- At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Transformation
- Environment and Security in the Western Balkans
- Getting Energy from Russia to Europe
- Media Revolution in Russia
- The Nordic Network on Choices, Resources and Encounters in Russia and Other European Post-Socialist States (CERES)
- The South Caucasus Beyond Borders, Boundaries and Division Lines: Conflicts, Cooperation and Development
- Speak Out! Empowering Migrant, Refugee and Ethnic Minority Women against Gender Violence in Europe
- The Structuration of Russia's Energy Policy
- Welfare, Gender and Agency in Russia in the 2000's (WGA)
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Research Projects
Media Revolution in Russia
The University of Helsinki awarded one of its three-year research grants to Dr. Jukka Pietiläinen and his research group. The total funding for 2011–2013 is 135,000
euros from University of Helsinki and 200 000 euros from the Emil Aaltonen Foundation. The aim of the project is to investigate those parts of the Russian media that may change Russian society in the near future. These include magazines, independent regional
newspapers and the Internet.
| Contact person: | Jukka Pietiläinen, Dr. Soc.Sc., jukka.pietilainen [at] helsinki.fi |
| Duration: | 2011-2013 |
| Researchers: | Katja Koikkalainen, Dr. Soc.Sc., researcher (Finnish Centre of Russian and Eastern European Studies of University of Helsinki) |
| Funding: | The University of Helsinki |