Mariëlle Wijermars is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.Katja Lehtisaari is a university lecturer at Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

A comprehensive collection that approaches the issue of freedom of expression in the new media in Russia, as well as attempts to curb it, from multiple angles. Such an approach illuminates the multifaceted nature of the Russian media studies regime, which cannot be reduced to simple state-controlled censorship" - Olena Nedozhogina, in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

• PrefaceNotes on contributorsIntroduction: freedom of expression in Russia’s new mediasphereMARIËLLE WIJERMARS AND KATJA LEHTISAARIPART IFrameworks for freedom of expression in Russia’s new media1 The occupation of Runet? The tightening state regulation of the Russian-language section of the internetMARKKU LONKILA, LARISA SHPAKOVSKAYA AND PHILIP TORCHINSKY2 The blacklisting mechanism: new-school regulation of online expression and its technological challengesLIUDMILA SIVETC3 Formation of media policy in Russia: the case of the Iarovaia lawKATJA LEHTISAARIPART IIReinventing media formats, platforms and networks4 The networked architecture of media freedom in contemporary Russia: the case of urban online magazinesSAARA RATILAINEN5 Transmedia storytelling as an opportunity for re-inventing Russian federal televisionEKATERINA LAPINA-KRATASYUK6 Authenticity and affect in historical reenactments of the Russian Revolution on social mediaDMITRY YAGODINPART IIINew media and fragmented audiences7 Challenging the ‘information war’ paradigm: Russophones and Russophobes in online Eurovision communitiesVITALY KAZAKOV AND STEPHEN HUTCHINGS8 Reconsidering media-centrism: Latvia’s Russian-speaking audiences in light of the Russia–Ukraine conflictMĀRTI ŅŠ KAPRĀNS AND JĀNIS JUZEFOVIČS9 Sputnik i Pogrom: Russia’s oppositional nationalism and alternative rightJUSSI LASSILAPART IVTactics of control and subversion10 Imprisoned for a ‘like’: the criminal prosecution of social media users under authoritarianismFREEK VAN DER VET11 State propaganda and popular culture in the Russian-speaking internetVERA ZVEREVA12 Freedom of expression and the Russian Orthodox ChurchHANNA STAEHLEConclusion KATJA LEHTISAARI AND MARIËLLE WIJERMARSIndex

Mariëlle Wijermars is a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.Katja Lehtisaari is a university lecturer at Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

A comprehensive collection that approaches the issue of freedom of expression in the new media in Russia, as well as attempts to curb it, from multiple angles. Such an approach illuminates the multifaceted nature of the Russian media studies regime, which cannot be reduced to simple state-controlled censorship" - Olena Nedozhogina, in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

• PrefaceNotes on contributorsIntroduction: freedom of expression in Russia’s new mediasphereMARIËLLE WIJERMARS AND KATJA LEHTISAARIPART IFrameworks for freedom of expression in Russia’s new media1 The occupation of Runet? The tightening state regulation of the Russian-language section of the internetMARKKU LONKILA, LARISA SHPAKOVSKAYA AND PHILIP TORCHINSKY2 The blacklisting mechanism: new-school regulation of online expression and its technological challengesLIUDMILA SIVETC3 Formation of media policy in Russia: the case of the Iarovaia lawKATJA LEHTISAARIPART IIReinventing media formats, platforms and networks4 The networked architecture of media freedom in contemporary Russia: the case of urban online magazinesSAARA RATILAINEN5 Transmedia storytelling as an opportunity for re-inventing Russian federal televisionEKATERINA LAPINA-KRATASYUK6 Authenticity and affect in historical reenactments of the Russian Revolution on social mediaDMITRY YAGODINPART IIINew media and fragmented audiences7 Challenging the ‘information war’ paradigm: Russophones and Russophobes in online Eurovision communitiesVITALY KAZAKOV AND STEPHEN HUTCHINGS8 Reconsidering media-centrism: Latvia’s Russian-speaking audiences in light of the Russia–Ukraine conflictMĀRTI ŅŠ KAPRĀNS AND JĀNIS JUZEFOVIČS9 Sputnik i Pogrom: Russia’s oppositional nationalism and alternative rightJUSSI LASSILAPART IVTactics of control and subversion10 Imprisoned for a ‘like’: the criminal prosecution of social media users under authoritarianismFREEK VAN DER VET11 State propaganda and popular culture in the Russian-speaking internetVERA ZVEREVA12 Freedom of expression and the Russian Orthodox ChurchHANNA STAEHLEConclusion KATJA LEHTISAARI AND MARIËLLE WIJERMARSIndex