Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Mikhail Suslov

Mikhail Suslov is a Marie Curie researcher at the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. He obtained his PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence in 2009. His research interests include Russian, and post-Soviet intellectual history, conservative and right-wing political ideology, critical geopolitics, conceptual history of the Russian Orthodox Church. His current study deals with the post-Soviet geopolitical ideas and new media.

Editorial – Issue 14

By Mikhail Suslov, Maria Engström and Greg Simons • Issue 14

Orthodoxy in Russia

In October 2015, Runet heatedly discussed the leak of information about the (failed) attempt of the Russian Ministry of Communications to cut the country off from the …
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The Medium for Demonic Energies: ‘Digital Anxiety’ in the Russian Orthodox Church

By Mikhail Suslov • Issue 14

The Russian Orthodox Church’s (ROC) discourses about the internet are centered on the idea that digital technology is an ethically neutral instrument. At the same time, however, both the highest …
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‘Ortho-Blogging’ from Inside: A Virtual Roundtable

By Irina Kotkina and Mikhail Suslov • Issue 14

This paper presents a ‘virtual roundtable’, compiled from the written interviews with blogging Orthodox priests and religious activists. They relate their experiences and reflections on digitalization of the Orthodox religion, …
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