Research

Projects

“Ethnonationalism for Them, Multinationality for Us”: Domestic Adoption of International Radical Right Rhetoric by the Russian Regime

  • Looking at domestic propaganda, argues that the Russian regime adopted ethnonationalist stances on ethnic minorities in Western Europe and North America (e.g., Black people) while maintaining a tolerant stance on ethnic diversity for domestic contexts (e.g., Tajik immigrants).

  • Uses frequency and sentiment analysis of a new dataset with over 25000 hour-long transcripts from major propaganda TV shows between 2017 and July 2024.

Platform Divergence in Radical Right Rhetoric across Russian Pro-Regime Media

  • Using large textual datasets, contrasts the patterns of adoption of radical right rhetoric by platform type: television talk shows, television news, presidential and Duma speeches, and pro-regime Telegram.

  • Finds a dichotomy between domestically oriented media such as news and talk shows versus presidential and parliamentary rhetoric. Media oriented toward the Russian public deploy ethnonationalism, but only for minorities in other countries. Officials avoid ethnonationalism for any context.

Does the Discrepant Use of International Radical Right Rhetoric by the Russian Regime Provoke or Pacify the Opposition?

  • Compares official rhetoric to the rhetoric of diverse ideological strands of the opposition, ranging from conventional liberals and progressives to anti-immigrant far-right and pro-empire right.

  • Assesses whether the discrepancy in the regime’s radical right rhetoric between foreign and domestic contexts makes the opposition more dissatisfied with the regime and with other opposition strands.

  • Uses a new dataset of Telegram channels stratified by ideology.

Publications

Davydov, A. (2021). Radical right ideologies and foreign policy preference: Attitudes towards Russia, China, and the USA in EU member states. Montreal, Canada: Resau transatlantique sur l’Europe politique (RESTEP).

Davydov, A. (2019) “Review of The Lands in Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War, by Mitchell A. Orenstein.” Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 36(3-4), 517-520.

Davydov, A. (2017). Nativism versus right-wing transnationalism in American racial theories, 1914-1924. Moscow University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication, 2017(4), 146-153.

Davydov, A. (2016). Eastern European immigrants in American racial theories, 1914-1924. Moscow University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication, 2016(2), 125-132.

© Andrey Davydov 2024