The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies… read more
The article aims at elucidating V. Putin’s war rhetoric by two of his nationwide broadcasted speeches delivered at the same location (the St. George’s Hall in the Kremlin Palace) to the same auditory (the two chambers of the Russian parliament) on two similar occasions: the annexation of the… read more
The paper continues a book chapter devoted to the Belarusian and Russian crisis management during the first months of the pandemic (Weiss 2022). The present chapter examines the second half of 2021 when vaccines were already available in both countries. It is based on data from speeches… read more
The execution of 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in the forests of Katyn’ in 1940 constituted a stumbling block for the relations between the two countries for several decades. Although the investigation conducted by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office (1991–2004) already confirmed… read more
This study attempts to capture the characteristics of parliamentary debates in the Russian State Duma
(Gosduma) according to the following criteria: quality of data (e.g. editorial specifics of the transcripts),
turn-taking system, forms of address, Internet communication and TV coverage. The… read more
The paper presents an overview of different syntactic gaps in modern colloquial Russian, and focuses on so-called ‘syntactic emptiness’, i.e. the zero copula, the referential zero lexemes Øljudi and Østixii, the generic ‘you’ Øty2 and omission of verbs of action [ØV], taking into account the… read more
