Legitimacy and Threat in Russian Foreign Agent Law : Policymakers' commentaries on the law in state media 2012-2022
Journal: Trepo - Institutional Repository of Tampere University
Year: 2023

The following thesis looks into the process of installation of the legal category of the foreign agent in Russia between 2012 and 2022. This research on the foreign agent law as a spreading model rationalising a favourable model of civil society looks into the practices of legitimisation and local systems of classification embedded in policy-making. The theoretical framing of this work approaches the phenomena as a continuous articulation of the category derived from the background myths precedi