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Ilya Matveev

Feb 28 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

I'm so disgusted with rejection letters, invitation cancellations, grant withdrawals etc. against Russian scholars from Western academics who fight Putinism by attacking those who have suffered from it for decades.

So encouraging to come home after being chased by riot police and discover that you were excluded from some space/platform b.c. 'you've done too little'. Who are you to judge? You've never risked anything in your life and this costs you nothing.

'It's not about you, it's about the institutions'. And who would teach students and tell them the truth if we abandon the universities? Oh I understand - who cares about Russian students and Russians in general, they're all orcs from Mordor more or less, right?

Irresponsible, indifferent, self-righteous hypocrites. Thanks for all the solidarity guys, so grateful that you've done your part.

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1) OK, my first thread. Last year I published an academic paper on the interplay of political and economic imperialism in Russia. I did try to read as much as possible and the article is quite comprehensive. I'm sharing it on Academia.edu.

academia.edu/61669024/Betwe…

2) In the paper I argue that up until 2014 Russia was negotiating its position within the global capitalist order dominated by the West. It was aiming at the 'subimperialist' role: a regional power with its own political-economic bloc, yet still integrated in the global economy.

3) In 2014, things changed. Instead of 'subimperialist' status, Russia shifted into full-on confrontation with the West. This marked the divergence between the interests of big capital and the state's geopolitical strategy.

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