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Alexander Tushkin

Associate Fellow

Alexander Tushkin is a Russian antifascist journalist and visiting researcher at HWR Berlin. In 2022, under the academic direction of Dr. Professor Christoph Kopke, he began researching how Russia uses antifascism as a pretext for war in Ukraine. His area of academic interest is far-right movements and their international collaborations.

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    • Africa
    • Subjectivity & Ideology
    • War & Violence
    • Economy

    Thucydides’ Trap and the Renewal of Africa-Russia Relations in the Face of Global Geopolitical Shockwaves

    In PerspectiveThis paper attempts to decipher and make sense of renewed and seemingly strengthened Africa-Russia relations at a time when the world’s geopolitics, geoeconomics, and geostrategic imperatives are undergoing unprecedented tectonic and structural ruptures, shifts, and breaks
    By Kennedy Manduna and Alexander Tushkin
    Thucydides’ Trap and the Renewal of Africa-Russia Relations in the Face of Global Geopolitical Shockwaves
    • Europe
    • Fascism
    • War & Violence

    “Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”

    InterviewA year after the outbreak of war, Alexander Tushkin from Russia spoke to Sergey Movchan, left-wing activist in Ukraine, about Ukrainian nationalism, the far right and antifascists in the Ukrainian army
    By Alexander Tushkin
    “Russia is giving carte blanche to the far right”
    • Europe
    • War & Violence
    • Fascism

    Making Russia Great Again?

    In PerspectiveHow the Kremlin suppressed Russian nationalists, but ended up pursuing their greatest ambition
    By Alexander Tushkin
    Making Russia Great Again?