{"600433":{"#nid":"600433","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Putin\u2019s Medieval Dreams","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDina Khapaeva, professor in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology, wrote the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EProject Syndicate\u003C\/em\u003E, December 29, article, \u0026ldquo;Putin\u0026rsquo;s Medieval Dreams.\u0026rdquo; The School of Modern Languages is part of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIvan the Terrible is not the only medieval vestige being revived in Russia. Cultural vocabulary is also reverting. For example, the word kholop, which means \u0026ldquo;serf,\u0026rdquo; is returning to the vernacular, a linguistic devolution that parallels a troubling rise in Russia\u0026rsquo;s modern slavery. Data from the Global Slavery Index show that more than \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.globalslaveryindex.org\/country\/russia\/\u0022\u003Eone million Russians are currently enslaved\u003C\/a\u003E in the construction industry, the military, agriculture, and the sex trade. Moreover, serf \u0026ldquo;owners\u0026rdquo; are also happily identifying themselves as modern-day barins.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEven Russian officials speak approvingly of modern slavery. Valery Zorkin, who chairs the Constitutional Court, wrote in\u0026nbsp;Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the official government newspaper, that serfdom has long been a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/rg.ru\/2014\/09\/26\/zorkin.html\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;social glue\u0026rdquo; for Russia\u003C\/a\u003E. And another medieval term \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;lydi gosudarevy, which translates to \u0026ldquo;servants of his majesty\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; has returned to favor among high-ranking bureaucrats.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, visit\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/russia-resurrecting-ivan-the-terrible-eurasianism-by-dina-khapaeva-2017-12\u0022\u003EProject Syndicate\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Ewebsite.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28754","created_gmt":"2018-01-05 15:59:47","changed_gmt":"2018-01-16 15:58:46","author":"T. Jesse Brannen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"coral species","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/russia-resurrecting-ivan-the-terrible-eurasianism-by-dina-khapaeva-2017-12","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"441101":{"id":"441101","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva","body":null,"created":"1449256190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:50","changed":"1539024312","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:45:12","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Dina Khapaeva","file":{"fid":"203074","name":"dinakhapaevaweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34304,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg?itok=WXfe7j-L"}}},"media_ids":["441101"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}