{"656761":{"#nid":"656761","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Khapaeva Publishes Op-Ed on Putin\u2019s \u2018Manual\u2019 for War","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/dina-khapaeva\u0022\u003EDina Khapaeva\u003C\/a\u003E, professor of Russian and director of the Russian program in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E, recently authored an op-ed in \u003Cem\u003EThe Atlantic \u003C\/em\u003Etitled \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/03\/putin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy\/629388\/\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Putin is Just Following the Manual.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the article, Khapaeva analyzes the similarities between Vladimir Putin\u0026rsquo;s war strategy and Mikhail Yuriev\u0026rsquo;s 2006 novel, \u003Cem\u003EThe Third Empire: Russia as It Ought to Be. \u003C\/em\u003EYuriev\u0026rsquo;s fictional predictions have come to pass in Russia\u0026rsquo;s recent military campaigns, including the 2008 war with Georgia, the 2014 annexation of Crimea and incursion into the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and Russia\u0026rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Yuriev\u0026rsquo;s book, like Putin\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/category\/russias-invasion-ukraine\/\u0022\u003Ewar with Ukraine\u003C\/a\u003E, is an expression of post-Soviet neo-medievalism, a far-right, anti-Western, and anti-democratic ideology that assigns \u0026lsquo;Russian Orthodox civilization\u0026rsquo; a dominant role over Europe and America,\u0026rdquo; Khapaeva writes. \u0026ldquo;\u003Cem\u003EThe Third Empire\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;is rumored to be popular and highly influential in the Russian leader\u0026rsquo;s circle; one Russian publication\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.vedomosti.ru\/opinion\/articles\/2014\/03\/02\/stroiteli-tretej-imperii\u0022\u003Edescribed\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;it as \u0026lsquo;the Kremlin\u0026rsquo;s favorite book.\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The op-ed, \u201cPutin is Just Following the Manual,\u201d appeared in The Atlantic."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-03-29 17:40:27","changed_gmt":"2022-03-31 19:14:16","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"653175":{"id":"653175","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva, professor of Russian","body":null,"created":"1638213948","gmt_created":"2021-11-29 19:25:48","changed":"1638213948","gmt_changed":"2021-11-29 19:25:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247757","name":"13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1473329,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg?itok=DKNQqA9b"}}},"media_ids":["653175"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"611608","name":"Global Media and Cultures (GMC)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1650","name":"Russia"},{"id":"88401","name":"Ukraine"},{"id":"122161","name":"putin"},{"id":"33421","name":"Dina Khapaeva"},{"id":"167342","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"11789","name":"The Atlantic"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECassidy Chreene Whittle\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Literature, Media, and Communication | School of Modern Languages\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:cwhittle9@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecwhittle9@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}