“Crimea Is Ours!” Russian popular geopolitics in the new media age
Journal: Eurasian Geography and Economics
Year: 2014

This article analyzes how the Russian annexation of Crimea in March 2014 has been represented and discussed on social networks. It argues that the key metaphors and discursive strategies, which have been developed in the digital environment, have been prefigured in Russian geopolitical culture and popular imagination since Crimea’s first accession to Russia in 1783. The central geopolitical trope of Crimea as either a “metonymy” of the empire or its “alter ego” reverberates in today’s online dis