the new russian nationalismxviiiin Local Governance and Minority Empowerment in the CIS
(Open Society Institute, 2003, edited by Valery Tishkov and Elena
Filippova) and ‘Successful Integration but Inadequate Protection:
The Meskhetian Turks in Kazakhstan’ in The Meskhetian Turks
at a Crossroads: Integration, Repatriation or Resettlement (LIT
Verlag, 2007, edited by Tom Trier and Andrei Khanzhin), as well
as contributions to academic journals both in Russia and in the
West. He is also co- editor and co- author of North Caucasus: Views
from Within (Saferworld, 2012) and co- author of ‘Kyrgyzstan:
Tragedy in the South’ (Ethnopolitics Papers, 2012, co- authored
with Anna Matveeva and Bahrom Faizullaev).
Vera Tolz is Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies
at the University of Manchester. She has published widely on
various aspects of Russian nationalism, identity politics and the
relationship between intellectuals and the state in the imperial and
Soviet periods. Her books include Russian Academicians and the
Revolution (Macmillan, 1997), European Democratization since
1800 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, co- edited with John Garrard
and Ralph White), Gender and Nation in Contemporary Europe
(Manchester University Press, 2005, co- edited with Stephenie
Booth), Russia: Inventing the Nation (Arnold, 2001), ‘Russia’s
Own Orient’: The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the
Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods (Oxford University Press,
2011) and Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television:
Mediating Post- Soviet Difference (Routledge 2015, co- authored
with Stephen Hutchings).
Alexander Verkhovsky is Director of the SOVA Center for
Information and Analysis. His areas of research include national-
ism, religion and politics and anti- extremism policies in Russia. He
has published the books Political Orthodoxy: Russian Orthodox
Nationalists and Fundamentalists, 1995–2001 (SOVA Center for
Information and Analysis, 2003, in Russian), State Policy Towards
National- Radical Organizations, 1991–2002 (SOVA Center
for Information and Analysis, 2013, in Russian) and Criminal
Law in OSCE Countries against Hate Crimes, Incitement of
Hatred and Hate Speech (SOVA Center for Information and