• Business in Russia, 6 ECTS (LUT/AI)
• Venäjän kulttuurihistoria, 2 op (JY)
• In/Equality & Resilience: Life Cycle and Social Policy in Contemporary Russia, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Venäläinen nykykirjallisuus, 5 op (HY)
• European Borders: Nation-building, Integration and the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood, 5 ECTS (UEF)
• Venäjän politiikka ja yhteiskunta, 5 op (HY)
• Orange Revolution and Euromaidan in Ukraine. Preconditions, aims and outcomes, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Литература русской эмиграции, 5 op (HY)
• Reactions and Responses: Globalized frameworks for governance, civil society and religion in Russia, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Verkkokurssi: Suomalaiset tsaarin Venäjällä: etnisyys, kulttuuri ja yhteisöllisyys, 5 op (TY)
• Intensive course: The Development of the EU-Russia Economic Relations, 6 ECTS (UTU)
• Venäläisen elokuvan historia, 5 op (HY)
• Web course: Religion and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Seminar on the Finnish-Russian Borderland, 5 ECTS (UEF)
• Nationalism and culture in the Western Balkans, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Environmental Humanities and Russia, 5 ECTS (UTA/AI)
• Intensive course: Culture and everyday life of the “Soviet Thaw”, 5 ECTS (UTA/AI)
• Resilience and Resistance: Soviet History, Building-up a Soviet Empire 1917-1991, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Intensive course: Russian Arctic – Past and present perspectives, 5 ECTS (UL/AI)
• Intensive course: Marketing Strategies and Management in Central and Eastern Europe, 5 ECTS (UWASA)
• Graduseminaari / Thesis seminar, 2-4 op (HY/UH)

• Russian National Security Interests: Roots, Threats and Implications, 5 ECTS (UH)
• History of the Soviet Union, 2 ECTS (UEF)
• Gender and law, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Security and Power in Russia, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe: Past and Present, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Intensive course: Ukraine’s Transformations in Comparative Perspective, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Itärintama. Itä-Euroopan maat ja kansat II maailmansodassa, 5 op (HY)
• Chornobyl and Nuclear Narrative Studies: the Case of Ukraine, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Tšehovin proosa, 5 op (HY)
• Intensive course: Investment Opportunities in Eastern Europe, 6 ECTS (UTU)
• Eastern Europe and the Balkans between European Ties and Russia, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Territory, Power and Governance in the Post-Soviet Countries, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Intensive course: Media Landscape in Russia: Regional Perspective, 5 ECTS (UTA/AI)
• Minorities in South-Eastern Europe around 1900, 5 ECTS (UEF/AI)
• Hip Hop East, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Russia beyond Russia. Case Study Finland, 5 ECTS (UTA/AI)
• Intensive course: Social Policy in Russia: age, family, gender, 5 ECTS (UEF/AI)
• Intensive course: Sites and manifestations of popular music in the context of Estonian cultural history, 5 ECTS (UH)
• Intensive course: Communicating Violence: Codes, Messages, Settings and Rituals in Russian, French, German and Post-Soviet Revolutions (1789-2014), 5 ECTS (UH/AI)
• Intensive course: Queer / Women in East European Cinema, 5 ECTS (UH)

Consumer markets. Living standard analysis. Russian enterprise structures. Industrial and service sectors. Company innovation strategies. Entrepreneurship and new enterprises. Marketing practices. Trade, foreign direct investments and e-commerce. Russia’s competitiveness and future trends.

Lectures 21 h, seminar work and presentation 60 h, course literature 45 h, self study and exam preparation 30 h. Total 156 h.

Literature: The World Bank in the Russian Federation. Policy Uncertainty Clouds Medium-Term Prospects. Latest available version. Diversifying Russia. Harnessing regional diversity. EBRD. Latest available version. Additional material will be announced on lectures

0 – 5. Exam 60 %, written report 40 %. Each of the components has to be passed acceptably.

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By the end of this course, students will understand better the construction and transformation of European borders, including Russia and the former-Soviet space. Special attention is paid to the changing political language and spatial imaginaries of constructing, legitimizing or challenging borders. The main themes of the lecture course are: introduction to formation and transformation of borders in Europe and within the European neighbourhood; key concepts and theoretical frameworks of the study of the construction and transformation of borders; changing significance of borders in the context of European integration; politics of cross-border co-operation and EU external relations in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood.

Modes of Study: The course comprises lectures (20h) and an examination as well as a seminar (8h) and final paper (5 credits).

It is highly recommended to complete at least KV22 or KV23 before taking this course

The final grade of the course is based on the exam (40%), the course work (40%), and active participation in the lectures (20%). It is obligatory to attend at least 50% of the lectures, including the final lecture, when students present the course works.

The courses analyzes the complex, controversial, and sometimes conflicting nexus between politics and religion, and state and church(es). Its main focus is to identify the various roles that religion plays for the state and in the public discourse in Central and Eastern European countries, particularly with regard to legitimizing state politics and informing identity-building. The web course is organized in eight sessions.

PART I: Introduction and Academic Approaches to the Field
(1) Introduction to Religion and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (Empirical Overview)
(2) Relationships between Religion and Politics (Theoretical Perspectives)
(3) After Socialism: Central and Eastern Europe between the ‘Revival of Religion’ and ‘Atheism’
(Paradigms)

PART II: Nexus between Politics and Religion
(4) ‘Polak-Katolik’?: Catholicism in Politics and Media in Poland
(5) ‘Sacred Space’ and the Claim for Territory: The Case of Kosovo
(6) ‘The Ukraine Crisis’ and Churches in Ukraine: Yet Another Schism?
(7) Migration and Religion: The Visegrád Countries

PART III: Summary and Outlook
(8) Making Sense of Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Today

For every session, course material will be uploaded to Moodle. The material includes statistical data on religion and religiosity, academic literature, newspaper articles, and videos. Students will have a choice between various materials and a respective assignment for every session.

Completion:
Eight web lectures, reading, 3 ECTS for weekly assignments only; 5 ECTS for weekly assignment + final essay

Realisation and working methods :
Reading and other eventual material will be posted to Moodle. ECEBB Planning Officer will send instructions how to log in for those who have registered to the course. NB: Moodle instructions will be sent to your University of Helsinki email address (Helsinki.fi).

The seminar introduces a series of topics related to the historical and cultural features of the Finnish-Russian borderland. The spring seminar (Part II) examines Karelia from a comparative perspective (on both sides of the border). The themes vary from historical, cultural and ethnic questions to political, economical and societal issues.

Modes of study: The seminar consists of independent study.

This course asks following questions: why did the Bolshevik Revolution occur? How did the Soviet leadership reassemble the fragments of Russia’s former empire and how did the realities of functioning as a multi-national state shape the Soviet system? Why Stalin’s rise to power and his terror? Why industrialization, collectivization, state terror? What elements of the communist system impeded and continue to impede reform? And finally: why collapse?

Course assessment includes active participation in the lectures, 5 pages of individual lecture diary, and 10 page of collaborative essays (2-3 students as co-authors). As this series of lectures is delivered through a combination of lectures, student group-workshops, assessment is carried out through long essays (40%), diaries (20%) and active participation (20%).

The course contains the following themes:

1) Introduction to the course (Susanna Pirnes and Olga Pushina)
2) History of the Russian North/Arctic (Susanna Pirnes)
3) Introduction to Russian Arctic law (Olga Pushina)
4) Russian Saami community (Lukas Allemann)
5) Indigenous peoples of the Russian Arctic (Stephan Dudeck)
6) Corporate Social Responsibility in the Russian Arctic (Adrian Braun or Ekaterina Britsyna)
7) Social issues in the Russian Arctic (TBC)
8) Memory politics and use of history in Russian Arctic Politics (Susanna Pirnes)
9) Societal aspects of energy in Russia and the circumpolar north (Hanna Lempinen)
10) Russian Arctic politics and international cooperation (Lassi Heininen)
11) Summary of the course (Susanna Pirnes and Olga Pushina)

The lecture course consists of twenty lectures. The introductory lecture will present foreign policy concepts and different schools of analysis of Russia’s international relations. Following lectures will cover the nineteenth and twentieth century chronologically, but each lecture will take up specific themes relevant to that period. Great power thinking and the Congress of Vienna, conflict avoidance while focusing on domestic development after the Crimean war, after the 1917 revolutions, and for a period after Vladimir Putin became president in 2000; multilateral cooperation vs. sovereignty in the context of the United Nations, OSCE etc; conventional and unconventional diplomacy; regional integration in Eurasia.

Students will be assigned topics for discussion by the lecturer to encourage interaction. Discussion will also focus on the use of different sources for analysis.

In the 2000s, Russia was one of the fastest growing major economies in the world. Russia’s skyrocketing growth spilled over to other East European countries, and hence provided foreign firms with a multitude of business opportunities all over Eastern Europe. The course gives an overview of the development of foreign direct investments in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Representatives of several leading firms, which have conducted investment projects in Eastern Europe, speak about their experiences in this lucrative but at the same time so volatile market. In addition to lectures, the course contains an analytical case study (course work) on a topical theme.

Written exam, exercises and participation in classroom work.

The final grade of the course is based on the exam (40%), the course work (40%), and active participation in the lectures (20%). A student is obliged to attend at least 50% of the lectures, including the final lecture, when the case studies are presented by students.

The following course entitled Media landscape in Russia: regional perspective is aimed at developing a wide range of skills among the students majoring in Communication, Foreign Media and Political Science. The main goal of the course is to introduce the students to the main concepts and key objectives of media functioning in Russia. Significant role will be paid to the political traditions, role of the Soviet heritage and the impact of the social and economic changes on the system of mass media. The course suggests a combination of class discussions (15 hours), workshops (5 hours) and one home assignment (5 hours). The students will be also expected to complete two home assignments (in the form of an essay).

Assignments
Each student is expected to complete one individual assignment in the form of an essay. Detailed topics of the assignments are presented in the discipline description. The assignments will be graded by the instructor with each student receiving appropriate notification, where a detailed feedback will be included as well as the final grade.

Neuvostoliiton hajoaminen ja sitä seuranneet muuttoliikkeet ovat johtaneet laajojen venäjänkielisten vähemmistöjen muotoutumiseen Venäjän Federaation ulkopuolelle. Suomessa venäjänkieliset muodostavat kolmanneksi suurimman kieliryhmän, ja venäjänkielinen väestö kasvaa niin maahanmuuton kautta kuin paikallisestikin. Kuitenkin tämän ryhmän tutkimus on sen kokoon ja merkitykseen nähden pysynyt vähäisenä.

Suunnitteilla oleva kurssi valottaa venäjänkielisiä vähemmistöjä monesta näkökulmasta, näin luoden kattavan yleiskuvan venäjänkielisistä ja heitä käsittelevistä tutkimusnäkökulmista. Kurssi keskittyy ensisijaisesti Suomen venäjänkielisiin, mutta peilaa heidän tilannettaan venäjänkilisiin vähemmistöihin muissa maissa. Kurssilla käsitellään venäjänkielisten vähemmistöjen muotoutumista muun muassa muuttoliikkeiden kautta ja Venäjän ulkovenäläisiin suuntaamien diasporapolitiikoissa. Venäjänkielisten kotoutumista käsitellään heidän työmarkkina-asemansa, hoivaverkostojen ja sukupuolen näkökulmasta. Venäjänkielisten ylirajaiset suhteet tulevat esille heidän mediasuhteensa ja historiallisen muistin analyysissä. Kurssilla käsitellään myös venäjänkielisten elämää kehystäviä Venäjä-mielikuvia.

This course aims to introduce students to the study of social policy as a sphere of interaction of various social actors included in its creation and consumption – state institutions, civil society, the commercial sector, as well as individuals and their families – in the post-Soviet Russian context. The course will highlight the Russian-specific understandings of the welfare state, social security and social care, gender order and gender contract, based on the study of the social policy experiences in the USSR and their transformation into the post-reform and present periods. Also emphasised will be the Russian construction of age differences in the development and implementation of social policies for children, youth, the adult (working) population, pensioners and the elderly, taking into account other forms of inequality (gender, class). By the end of the course, students will have a thorough knowledge of social theories and their policy application in the contemporary Russian context.

The course is intended for UEF students in the International Master’s Programme Border Crossings – Global and Local Societies in Transition; advanced stage of Sociology and Social and Public Policy Study Programmes; the Minor Studies Programme of Russian and Border Studies; the Study Programme Karelia, Russia, and the Baltic States; students in Russian language and culture; PhD students in relevant Programmes; and within class size limits, exchange students at UEF.

Course contents, 10 lectures, 20 hours

1. Introduction: Social policy as a sphere of social activity
2. Welfare states: formation and transformation
3. Social policy in the period of socialism and its subsequent transformation
4. Family policy
5. The labour market and social policy
6. Social policy as a source of social protection and social well-being
7. Social policy for children
8. Social policy for adolescents and youth
9. The adult and working population: social policy in the sphere of family and work
10. Social policy with respect to pensioners and older citizens: problems of institutional and family care

Students’ course work will be evaluated by an essay, to be handed in electronically to the teacher no later than 14 days after the end of the course.

Attendance and participation in at least eight lectures is compulsory. Each 2-hour lecture slot also includes time for questions and discussion. To complete the course, the students need to write a 10 to 12 -page paper (academic essay style) on a relevant topic of their choice selected in consultation with the instructor.

A grade (scale 0-5) for the course will be determined as follows: final paper 50%, attendance in class 30%, and participation in class discussions 20%.

The complementary readings will be sent handed out by the teacher during class.

In the last couple of centuries, the dominant approach to revolutions was their abstract interpretation in broad economical, historical and psychological terms. It is only recently that actual social interaction within revolutions has attracted attention of historians, linguists and media scholars. Nevertheless, a typological analysis of rhetoric and communication in the process of revolution has barely begun.

The course Communicating Violence: Codes, Messages, Settings and Rituals in Russian, French, German and Post-Soviet Revolutions (1789-2014) is intended to fill this gap. The idea is to offer students tools, data and methods for their guided exploration of revolutionary communication understood as a multi-faceted socio-cultural phenomenon.