Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

• Introduction 1. Well-Mannered Aliens Brandishing New Truths: Putin’s ‘Polite Green Men’ and the (Non)-Occupation of Crimea 2. Projecting Russia on the Global Stage: International Broadcasting and Recursive Nationhood 3. A Little Girl Dreams of Kiev: Projection as Abjection, the Invalid Nation and Russia’s 2017 Eurovision (Non)-Performance 4. Film Narrative and Cultural Diplomacy: The (Not So) Peculiar Cases of Ovsianki and Belyi tigr 5. Double Agents: Russia’s Intercultural Mediators and the Articulation of the Global 6. Pussy Riot goes West: Re-staging the New Gulag for a Global Audience Conclusion

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

• Introduction 1. Well-Mannered Aliens Brandishing New Truths: Putin’s ‘Polite Green Men’ and the (Non)-Occupation of Crimea 2. Projecting Russia on the Global Stage: International Broadcasting and Recursive Nationhood 3. A Little Girl Dreams of Kiev: Projection as Abjection, the Invalid Nation and Russia’s 2017 Eurovision (Non)-Performance 4. Film Narrative and Cultural Diplomacy: The (Not So) Peculiar Cases of Ovsianki and Belyi tigr 5. Double Agents: Russia’s Intercultural Mediators and the Articulation of the Global 6. Pussy Riot goes West: Re-staging the New Gulag for a Global Audience Conclusion

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

• Introduction 1. Well-Mannered Aliens Brandishing New Truths: Putin’s ‘Polite Green Men’ and the (Non)-Occupation of Crimea 2. Projecting Russia on the Global Stage: International Broadcasting and Recursive Nationhood 3. A Little Girl Dreams of Kiev: Projection as Abjection, the Invalid Nation and Russia’s 2017 Eurovision (Non)-Performance 4. Film Narrative and Cultural Diplomacy: The (Not So) Peculiar Cases of Ovsianki and Belyi tigr 5. Double Agents: Russia’s Intercultural Mediators and the Articulation of the Global 6. Pussy Riot goes West: Re-staging the New Gulag for a Global Audience Conclusion