Annotation
Human Rights violation is the common argument in the current debates between Russia, post-Soviet countries, and democratic world. The content of it is seriously different depends on the who is pronounced the sentences about human rights. It has become quite popular among political elites to explain foreign and domestic politics in terms of human rights, but at the same time human rights and the human rights movement are both in serious crises, especially in concern with authoritarianism, which is “goes global”.
The situation in the post-Soviet space are seriously diverse – from the Baltic Sea countries to Turkmenistan, and from the Belarus to Kyrgyzstan. The course seek to make an overview of the current debates on human rights in post-Soviet countries, based on the role of human rights narrative in different crises – Bronze Soldier story in Estonia and question of Russian language and aggressive Russian historical politics, Orange revolution, Maidan in Ukraine and the problem of the “promotion democracy and human rights”, Andijan tragedy and question of ‘fighting against terrorism’ and violation of the Muslim rights, especially in the Central Asia countries.