From “Soviet West” to “Western East:” Russia’s reimagination of Baltic “Westernness” in a post-2004 geopolitical reality
Journal: Journal of Baltic Studies
Year: 2023

In this article, I explore how the popular image of Baltic 'Westernness,' widespread in the period from the mid-1950s to late 1980s, has undergone discursive reconstruction in Putin's Russia.Using popular geopolitics as a theoretical approach, and critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a method, I demonstrate that among other popular geopolitical visions, the reconstructed image in question has been employed by the state media to articulate Russia's current foreign policy agenda in relation to the