Kristin Fjæstad
Junior Research FellowKristin Fjæstad works as a research fellow in the research group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic. Since 2013, she is a PhD student at the University of St Andrews.
Fjæstad’s PhD project is about Kazakhstan's transition from a recipient to a donor of development aid and the establishment of a Kazakhstani aid agency, KazAid. Fjæstad also works with Nupi's cooperation with the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, where she has previously worked as a teaching and research fellow. Her main research areas are development aid, democratisation and state-building in the former Soviet Union, primarily Central Asia.
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: Report
Russia and Europe in memory wars
2020Russia and Europe are in a state of memory war. How did this come about? Is there a way out of this situation? In order to answer these questions, this report enquires into the dynamics of memory politics in Europe, and then takes a closer look at Russian memory politics.- Alexei Miller
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: Report
Generation Putin: Values, orientations and political participation
2019In spring 2017, many young Russians took to the streets of major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg in protest against the authorities. Since then, the generation that has grown up after the fall of the Soviet Union has captured the imagination of the general public, within the country and abroad.... -
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: NUPI Working Paper
Russian Public Opinion and the Confrontation with the West
2019What do most Russians think about President Putin, the policies of the Kremlin and the West? Is Russia on the right track? How do Russians view the future? President Vladimir Putin has, since he was elected in 2000, scored high in public opinion polls. After the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 the... -
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: NUPI Working Paper
The Russian political system in transition: Scenarios for power transfer
2018In the aftermath of the March 2018 presidential elections, the Russian political system is preparing for – indeed, already entering – the next phase of its development: the transition of power. This inevitable, but still unmentionable, transition is the topic of topics in the minds of Russia’s political... -
Research project
Cooperation between the OSCE Academy and NUPI
2017 - 2019 (Ongoing)The project consists of a wide range of activities including capacity-building of the OSCE Academy as a regional meeting point for research and education, support for two MA programmes in Politics and Security and Economic Governance and Development and research activities.
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: ARTIKKEL
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: ARTIKKEL
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: EUCAM : European National Policies Series
Norway and Central Asia
This policy brief provides an overview of relations between Central Asia and Norway, and is part of the EU-CAM National Policies Series. -
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: NUPI Policy Brief
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: LEDER
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: Rapport/avhandling
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: ARTIKKEL