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Acknowledgements

This book has been made possible through a research project
on ‘Nation- building, nationalism and the new “other” in
today’s Russia’ (NEORUSS)^1 funded by the Research Council
of Norway, under the NORRUSS programme, project number

220599. Additional funding has been provided by the Freedom of
        Expression Foundation (Fritt Ord). The project involves research-
        ers at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European
        Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway and the Research
        Group on Russia, Eurasia and the Arctic at the Norwegian
        Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway in addition to
        ten researchers from five different countries (France, Germany,
        Russia, United Kingdom and the United States).

(^1) <www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/research/projects/neoruss> (last accessed 9 March
2015).