Helge Blakkisrud
Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research group on Russia, Asia and International TradeHelge Blakkisrud’s main research interests include Russian federalism and centre–region relations, in particular, the development of the institution of governors. Research interests also include Russia's High North/Arctic policy, nationality policy and Russian nationalism, as well as processes of state-building and nation-building in Eurasia, especially in Eurasian de facto states.
Blakkisrud is editor of Nordisk Østforum, a Nordic peer-reviewed journal for Russian and East European studies. He is head of the Research group on Russia, Asia and International Trade.
He has been a guest lecturer at the OSCE Academy, Bishkek, since 2008. In 2009–2010, he was a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at UC Berkeley.
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Mon 3 Dec 2018Event
Putin’s Russia: Vanguard or rearguard of populism?
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIWhat are the similarities, differences and linkages between Putin’s Russia and Orban’s Hungary, Trump’s USA and Bolsonaro’s Brazil?
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Tue 13 Nov 2018Event
Ten years after the Russia-Georgia war: Geopolitics of the South Caucasus and Black Sea Regions
Time: 10:00 Location: NUPIMinister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, David Zalkaliani, visits NUPI to talk about the situation in the region ten years after the war.
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Wed 31 Oct 2018Event
How do the Russians view the confrontation with the West?
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPILev Gudkov will give you an insight to the public opinion in Russia in 2018.
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Mon 22 Oct 2018Event
CANCELLED: New conservatism as national consensus in Russia?
Time: 14:30 Location: NUPIUnfortunately, we have to cancel this seminar due to unforeseen events.
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Research project
Russia's strategic approaches to Europe: Addressing the puzzle through policy relevant research (StratApproach)
2018 - 2020 (Ongoing)How is Russia’s strategic approach to Europe shaped by its reading of Western intentions and actions and what implications does this approach has for Norway?
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The Russia Conference: Cold Peace in the Arctic?
14.09.2018On September 14, NUPI’s Russia Conference took place in Oslo. Couldn’t be there? Watch the entire event, including Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide's key note speech, on YouTube. -
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Valdai Paper #92: Russia’s Far East Initiatives in Troubled Geopolitical Times
The China–Russia rapprochement forms the centrepiece of Russia’s much hyped policy of a ‘turn to the East’, a policy aimed at transforming the Russian Far East from a territorial backwater into a new gateway to China, North-East Asia and beyond. In 2013, President Vladimir Putin declared the development... -
Mon 3 Sep 2018Event
How does Russia prepare for a transition of power?
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIAccording to the Russian Constitution, the current term is the last for President Putin. How will the Russian political system prepare for the transition of power?
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Mon 19 Mar 2018Event
Six new years with Putin – what now?
Time: 14:30 Location: NUPIOn 18 March Vladimir Putin will by all appearances be re-elected for a new six-year term as President. What will this mean for Russia?
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An Asian Pivot Starts at Home: The Russian Far East in Russian Regional Policy
2018To realize its ambitious goals of turning the Far East into Russia’s gateway to the Asia-Pacific, the Kremlin in 2012 established the Ministry for the Development of the Far East. Structurally, this ministry is a hybrid, with offices at the federal and the regional levels, reflecting both Moscow’s centralized... -
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Russia before and after Crimea: Nationalism and Identity, 2010-17
2018Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 marked a watershed in post-Cold War European history and brought East–West relations to a low. At the same time, by selling this fateful action in starkly nationalist language, the Putin regime achieved record-high popularity. This book shows how, after the large-scale... -
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Introduction: Exploring Russian nationalisms
2018In the introductory chapter, the two editors, Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud, argue that in Putin's third period as president, nationalism has become even more important for understanding Russian politics and society than before. Prior to the annexation of Crimea, the influx of low-skilled labour... -
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'Restore Moscow to the Muscovites': Othering 'the migrants' in the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections
2018Today, the Russian Federation has the second largest migrant population in the world in absolute numbers. The chapter looks at what role these migrants – and migrantophobia – play in Russian contemporary identity discourse through the lens of the 2013 Moscow mayoral elections. On the eve of these elections,... -
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Afterword: 6400 kilometers away - but not a policy world apart
The Afterword presents two key findings from this volume. First, while numerous new strategy documents and instruments have been adopted in recent years, contributing authors voice concern about the steps Moscow has taken to translate lofty ideas into practical policies. Second, the key initiatives were... -
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Gateway or Garrison? Border regions in times of geopolitical crisis
Russia's border regions have had moments as open 'gateways' to cooperation. More often, however, the border has been viewed as a 'garrison': an outpost of state power. This chapter places the Russian Far East in the broader context of Russia's pursuit of economic development... -
Research project
Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)GPARC aims to provide up-to-date academic and policy analyses of how major powers (USA, Russia, China) set parameters for and intervene in the maritime politics of the Arctic.
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: ANTOLOGI
Russia's Turn to the East - Domestic Policymaking and Regional Cooperation
2018This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent... -
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NEW BOOK: Is Russia turning its back on the West?
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Thu 1 Feb 2018Event
Armenia-Turkey Relations – torn between past and future
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIVahram Ter-Matevosyan talks about the complicated relationship between Turkey and Armenia, a situation that has been at a standstill for the past 26 years.
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VIDEO: Russia and the West – competing realities
04.12.2017NUPI’s annual Russia conference drew a full house.