indexself-identification as, Crimea, 188
Soviet identity and, 55–6
support for Putin, 179–80, 187
support for Russian expansionism,
174–8, 177 , 181–2, 212–13
and the term russkie, 168, 205–6
unifying role (nationalities policy),
262
ethnicity
defined, 304
ethnicity-related news, 303–4,
305–6, 307 – 9 , 310, 311
importance of, post-Soviet Union,
3–4, 26–7, 300
of migrant workers, 4
passport nationality, 268, 270
rising importance to nationalist
debate, 1
ethnonationalism
among dissidents, post-1917, 26
and the annexation of Crimea, 6,
260–1, 354
common anti-Putin stance with
pro-Western democrats, 3, 35
concept of russkii, 36
disillusionment with Putin’s
economic strategies, 354
distinction from imperialist
nationalism, 22, 35–6
emergence of, 1, 19–20, 34
ethnic irredentism of, 37
Eurasianist opposition to, 30, 35–6
within neopaganism, 122–4
opposition to civic nation-state
model, 36–7, 40
popular support and, 40–1, 43–4
Putin’s stance on, 38–9, 252–3,
254, 354
scepticism of Eurasian Union, 345,
354
stance on ethnic Russians in the
‘near abroad’, 37
in state rhetoric, 37–9, 43–4, 206
and statism, 1, 19, 21–2
Eurasian Economic Union, 44, 166,
276, 337, 344, 345, 353, 354, 357
Eurasianism
geography as destiny rhetoric, 62
integrationist stance, 41
neo-Eurasianism, 30
opposition to ethnonationalism, 30,
35–6
post-1917, 25–6
and state rhetoric, 44
support for, 23, 280–2
Euromaidan revolution
implications for Eurasian Economic
Union, 344
Kremlin’s response to, 6, 17, 201–2,
206, 208
national democratic nationalist
support for, 56
Russian nationalism and, 17, 216
Europe
lack of ethnic cohesion, 312
migration, coverage of by Russian
state-aligned television, 320–3,
324
multiculturalism as failed strategy,
254, 258, 299, 312, 318, 323,
329
negative attitudes towards
migrants, 138
see also civilisational grammars;
the West
expansionism
ethnic minority levels of support
for, 166–8, 169–70, 174–8, 177 ,
181–2, 186, 189
ethnic Russian levels of support for,
174–8, 177 , 181–2, 212–13
group threat approach and ethnic
minority support, 165–6, 182
and Muslim republics, 213
post-annexation of Crimea, 247
preferences for Russia’s state
identity, 184–5, 184
preferences for territorial
boundaries, 213, 214
prospective group status in Russian
state identity scenarios, 184–6,
185
and reduction of exclusionist
sentiments, 187
social identity approach and
ethnic minority support, 167–8,
182
see also Crimea, annexation of