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 25 Nov 2019Event
History as politics in Putin’s Russia
Time: 14:00 Location: NUPIProfessor Alexey Miller give a lecture about Russian memory politics and how memory politics is used and can be understood in relation to the international context.
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Thu 31 Oct 2019Event
Ukraine's energy transition in a new political landscape
Time: 14:00 Location: NUPIThe presidential and parliamentary elections earlier this year resulted in a massive shift of power in Ukrainian politics. How is this affecting the energy sector in Ukraine?
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Fri 8 Nov 2019Event
Russia and the European Human Rights System
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIThere is a change in Russia's approach to the European Convention on Human Rights. What are the prospects for Russian participation in this system?
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Thu 6 Jun 2019Event
Generation Putin: What’s important to them?
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIRecent polls show that Russian youths differ from their parents in values and orientations. What impact may this have on their political participation and preferences?
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Mon 27 May 2019Event
The future of Russian arms exports
Time: 13:30 Location: NUPIWill Russian arms export continue to boost Russian influence in the world?
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Museums, memory and meaning-creation: (re)constructing the Tajik nation
2019To overcome the traumas of the 1992–1997 civil war, the Tajik authorities have turned to history to anchor their post‐independence nation‐building project. This article explores the role of the National Museum of Tajikistan, examining how the museum discursively contributes to ‘nationalising’ history... -
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: NUPI Policy Brief
The Arctic Council and US domestic policymaking
One widely recognized achievement of the Arctic Council and its various working groups has been the production of collectively generated assessments on Arctic problems. Assessment reports such as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) provide an important baseline of shared knowledge for making... -
Research project
Competency through Cooperation: Advancing knowledge on Georgia's strategic path (GEOPATH)
2019 - 2022 (Ongoing)GEOPATH is a collaborative research project which aims to build competency in the Georgian research sector as well as producing new insights into the crucial question of Georgia's future strategic path between Russia and the EU.
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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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News
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. -
Publication
: Rapport/avhandling
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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Publication
: Del av bok/rapport
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... -
Publication
: ANTOLOGI
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,...