Announcement of new Russian-language journal Kontrapunkt
Subject: Announcement of new Russian-language journal Kontrapunkt
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015
From: Cory Welt <cwelt@gwu.edu>
New Russian-Language Journal of Politics & Society “Counterpoint”
George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) is pleased to announce the first publication of Counterpoint (Kontrapunkt), a new open-access Russian-language journal of politics and society edited by Maria Lipman available at www.counter-point.org
According to Lipman, “As a musical term, ‘counterpoint’ is a combination of several independent lines of melody that converge harmoniously. This is what we aim to achieve in each thematic issue of Counterpoint: independent authors, each investigating and analyzing his or her own aspect of the chosen subject, contributing their diverse voices to produce a multifaceted picture of Russian life.”
The inaugural issue, devoted to the theme “Russia and Crimea. Eighteen Months Together,” taps some of Russia’s leading analysts to uncover the nature of the “Crimea syndrome” affecting Russian society (Kirill Rogov); recent shifts in the Kremlin’s regional policy (Natalia Zubarevich); the transformation of the judicial system (Ella Paneyakh); the fate of the opposition (Vladimir Gel’man); and the government’s crackdown on the Internet (Andrei Soldatov). The issue also examines how Russia is incorporating Crimea into its system of state management (Nikolay Petrov) and offers a research-based view of the Donbass insurgency (Serhiy Kudelia). It also reviews new books by Serhii Plokhy and Ann Applebaum.
Maria Lipman is an internationally recognized expert on Russian politics and media. She was Editor-in-Chief of Pro et Contra, a policy journal published by the Carnegie Moscow Center, from 2003 to 2014. Before joining Carnegie Moscow Center, she was co-founder and Deputy Editor of two Russian weekly magazines: Itogi (Summing Up), published in association with Newsweek, and Ezhenedel’ny Zhurnal (Weekly Journal). From 2001 until 2011, Lipman wrote an op-ed column on Russian politics, media, and society for the Washington Post. She has contributed to a variety of Russian and U.S. publications, including a monthly blog for The New Yorker since 2012.
An interview (in Russian) with Lipman on the new journal can be found here: www.colta.ru/articles/media/8808