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In July 2023, Alexander Osipov participated in the European Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). The conference “Reframing Nationalism and Populism in the Context of Securitization: Political Struggles and Scholarly Debates” was held on 6-8 July, 2023 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was co-organized by the Babeș-Bolyai University in cooperation with the ASN and the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. The thematic emphasis was on the interlinkages between the perceptions, representations, and realities of the semi-peripheral conditions related to nationalism [...]

Alexander Osipov took part in two events in Berlin. On 14 June 2023, he contributed to the panel discussion “Nordic experiences of territorial autonomy and their global relevance – Islands of the North: Faroes, Greenland and Åland” organized by the Finland Institute in Berlin and the Åland Islands Peace Institute and held at Felleshus – Nordic Embassies cultural centre. On 15 June 2023, he participated in the workshop “The Many Faces of Territorial Autonomy – Challenges and Trends” arranged by [...]

Alexander Osipov’s article “Crimea in Ukraine: Smoothing the Edges as Diversity Institutionalization” has been issued online in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2023.2207367). According to the author, from the early 1990s, Ukrainian Crimea seemed to face the Russian majority’s separatist inclinations and far-reaching political claims of the formerly deported Crimean Tatars. Nevertheless, the peninsula’s autonomous status secured ethnopolitical stability for about 19 years, and the article considers how the established regime of diversity governance contributed to the autonomy’s endurance. The [...]

Alexander Osipov published the article entitled “Historical Legacies in Eurasian Diaspora and Compatriot Policies” in Hungarian Journal of Minority Studies (Vol. V, 2022). The author argues that the post-Soviet diaspora and compatriot policies appear to demonstrate that a new phenomenon emerged after the USSR’s dissolution. An examination of the Soviet approaches to the “nationalities question” and pre-Soviet imperial governance patterns shows that the imaginaries of expatriate communities were inherent to both periods’ perceptions and state action. For various reasons, [...]

March 17, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seriously affected the region of Central and Eastern Europe and beyond. The decision of Russia’s leadership to start the war constitutes a grave violation of international law and is not legally excusable. The huge number of dead and injured, severe destruction of Ukraine’s infrastructure, and the massive wave of refugees and IDPs are already facts that the world faces and is dealing with. However, the war can result in the deterioration of interethnic [...]

March 6, 2022 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a grave crime against humanity and a serious threat to Europe’s security. It has no justification whatsoever. We firmly stand with the people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom and independence and condemn Russia’s aggression. At the same time, we would like to draw attention to the following problem. Due to the actual presence of Russia’s military forces in the territory of Belarus, Belarus, its citizens, and ethnic Belarusians all over Europe [...]

In late September 2021, an ICELDS Board member Dr. Alexander Osipov issued an article in Ethnopolitics about the ways of conceptualizing so-called non-territorial autonomy (NTA). Alexander Osipov (2021) “Mapping Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements”, Ethnopolitics. doi: 10.1080/17449057.2021.1975891. The article examines the correspondence between the notion of non-territorial autonomy for ethnic groups (NTA) and its empirical referents and seeks to evaluate the expediency of employing the concept as a descriptive term. As the author shows, the concept applies primarily for normative purposes and as such [...]

In September 2021, an ICELDS Board member Dr. Alexander Osipov issued an article in Nationalities Papers concerning the role of so-called nonterritorial autonomy (NTA) in ethnic diversity policies in Eurasia – from the Russian Empire to the post-Soviet states: Alexander Osipov (2021) “Non-territorial Autonomy in Northern Eurasia: Rooted or Alien?”, Nationalities Papers. doi: 10.1017/nps.2021.35. Many scholars regard NTA as a theoretical breakthrough and as a way to drastically rearrange diversity policies. The author seeks to clarify whether NTA had been a groundbreaking innovation [...]