Christian Noack is Associate Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam

• Introduction: Language and Culture in Russia’s Soft Power ToolboxChristian NoackChapter 1: The ‘Russian World’ and UkraineMichał WawrzonekChapter 2: Russian in Belarus: Element of Belarusian Identity or Moscow’s ‘Trojan Horse’?Mark BrüggemannChapter 3: Between Emotions and Pragmatism: The Russian Language in Kazakhstan and the ‘Russian Factor’Natalya Kosmarskaya, Igor SavinChapter 4: Speakers of Russian in Ireland: ‘What unites us is [the] language, but in all other respects we are different’Feargus Denman Chapter 5: Media Use of Russian Speakers in Germany Olga TikhomirovaChapter 6: The Role of Russian for Digital Diplomacy in MoldovaDmitry YagodinChapter 7: Promoting Russian Higher EducationSirke MäkinenChapter 8: Stable or Variable Russian? Standardization versus PluricentrismEkaterina Protassova, Maria YelenevskayaChapter 9: Russkii Mir in Perspective: Comparing Russia’s Language Promotion with British, French and German Practices.Christian Noack

Christian Noack is Associate Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam

• Introduction: Language and Culture in Russia’s Soft Power ToolboxChristian NoackChapter 1: The ‘Russian World’ and UkraineMichał WawrzonekChapter 2: Russian in Belarus: Element of Belarusian Identity or Moscow’s ‘Trojan Horse’?Mark BrüggemannChapter 3: Between Emotions and Pragmatism: The Russian Language in Kazakhstan and the ‘Russian Factor’Natalya Kosmarskaya, Igor SavinChapter 4: Speakers of Russian in Ireland: ‘What unites us is [the] language, but in all other respects we are different’Feargus Denman Chapter 5: Media Use of Russian Speakers in Germany Olga TikhomirovaChapter 6: The Role of Russian for Digital Diplomacy in MoldovaDmitry YagodinChapter 7: Promoting Russian Higher EducationSirke MäkinenChapter 8: Stable or Variable Russian? Standardization versus PluricentrismEkaterina Protassova, Maria YelenevskayaChapter 9: Russkii Mir in Perspective: Comparing Russia’s Language Promotion with British, French and German Practices.Christian Noack

Christian Noack is Associate Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam

• Introduction: Language and Culture in Russia’s Soft Power ToolboxChristian NoackChapter 1: The ‘Russian World’ and UkraineMichał WawrzonekChapter 2: Russian in Belarus: Element of Belarusian Identity or Moscow’s ‘Trojan Horse’?Mark BrüggemannChapter 3: Between Emotions and Pragmatism: The Russian Language in Kazakhstan and the ‘Russian Factor’Natalya Kosmarskaya, Igor SavinChapter 4: Speakers of Russian in Ireland: ‘What unites us is [the] language, but in all other respects we are different’Feargus Denman Chapter 5: Media Use of Russian Speakers in Germany Olga TikhomirovaChapter 6: The Role of Russian for Digital Diplomacy in MoldovaDmitry YagodinChapter 7: Promoting Russian Higher EducationSirke MäkinenChapter 8: Stable or Variable Russian? Standardization versus PluricentrismEkaterina Protassova, Maria YelenevskayaChapter 9: Russkii Mir in Perspective: Comparing Russia’s Language Promotion with British, French and German Practices.Christian Noack