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The identification with a “cultural hero” during the regional elect oral campaigns 2013 Focus on legislatures. Vsevolod Bederson , Institute of philosophy and law of the Ural branch of RAS, PSU, CCHPS .
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The identification with a “cultural hero” during the regional electoralcampaigns 2013 Focusonlegislatures VsevolodBederson, Institute of philosophy and law of the Ural branch of RAS, PSU,CCHPS
“Identification invites us to specify theagents that do the identifying” (Brubaker&Cooper) Reduction(Assman)
Regionallegislativeelections September 2013 Bashkortostan Buryatiya Kalmykiya Yakutiya-Sakha Khakasiya Chechnya Zabaikalskykrai Arkhangelskaya oblast Vladimirskaya oblast Ivanovskaya oblast Kemerovskaya oblast Rostovskaya oblast Smolenskaya oblast Ulyanovskaya oblast Irkutskaya oblast Yaroslavskaya oblast Bashkortostan Irkutskaya oblast Yaroslavskaya oblast _________________ Yakutiya-Sakha Khakasiya Chechnya Arkhangelskaya oblast Ivanovskaya oblast Ulyanovskaya oblast
Bashkortostan is a region with an acuteconflict between theBashkir elite and Tatar and Russian communities, as well as the conflict between the "old" President Rakhimov and the "new" one Khamitovandtheircronies.
Summary • The phenomenon of “cultural heroes" is a serious political risk and conflict-generating mechanism • The phenomenonof “cultural heroes" is not justapolitical resource • "Cultural heroes" seemstobeaninefficient toolfornon-personified electoralcampaigns • The territorial identity in contemporary Russia is not a resource or atoolexploitedthroughoutthe electoral struggle.