{"658614":{"#nid":"658614","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Putin Propagates State Terror as a National Tradition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/dina-khapaeva\u0022\u003EDina Khapaeva,\u003C\/a\u003E professor and director of the Russian program in the School of Modern Languages, discussed Putin and the war in Ukraine with the German television news channel \u003Cem\u003En-tv.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;She spoke about Putin\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;memory politics,\u0026quot; his use of state terror as a \u0026quot;national tradition,\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;and the fate of the country following the war in Ukraine. The article, titled \u0026quot;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/politik\/Das-Ziel-von-Putins-Erinnerungspolitik-ist-die-Propagierung-von-Staatsterror-als-grosser-nationaler-Tradition-article23361387.html\u0022\u003EPutin propagiert Staatsterror als nationale Tradition\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026quot; [Putin Propagates State Terror as a National Tradition], was published on May 29, 2022.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The whole point of Putin\u0026#39;s memory politics is to make Russians believe that the Russian Middle Ages was a great society, a wonderful alternative to democracy, much better than democracy. The goal of this memory politics is the restoration of an empire, the militarization of public opinion, and the propagation of state terror as a great national tradition.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-05-31 18:39:09","changed_gmt":"2022-05-31 20:18:09","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.n-tv.de\/politik\/Das-Ziel-von-Putins-Erinnerungspolitik-ist-die-Propagierung-von-Staatsterror-als-grosser-nationaler-Tradition-article23361387.html","dateline":{"date":"2022-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-05-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"653175":{"id":"653175","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva, professor of Russian","body":null,"created":"1638213948","gmt_created":"2021-11-29 19:25:48","changed":"1638213948","gmt_changed":"2021-11-29 19:25:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"247757","name":"13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1473329,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13C10401-P6-051.jpeg?itok=RscpI8Sx"}}},"media_ids":["653175"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"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":""}}}