Happy New Year 2026 from all of us at TaRC!
It’s a new year, but we continue our old habits by bringing you another highly interesting Online Talk on Eurasian Media as part of our ongoing collaboration with the Russian Media Lab at the University of Helsinki!
On Tuesday 13 January, Mika Perkiönmäki from Tampere University presents his study on how climate change has been represented in Russian pro-state online news media.
Perkiönmäki has focused particularly on the framing of adaptation to climate change and the influence of Russia’s ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2019 and its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Adaptation is analysed through the lens of climate obstruction, defined as actions and efforts that slow or block climate policy implementation. The study opens a broader discussion on how evidence from Russian media can inform understandings of obstructionist discourses that authoritarian actors may deploy within democratic contexts.
Speaker bio:
Dr Mika Perkiömäki is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tampere University, Institute for Advanced Study. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher both at the Aleksanteri Institute and the Department of Languages of the University of Helsinki. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Idäntutkimus, the Finnish review of Russian and East European studies.
Event info:
This Online Talk will be held on Zoom on Tuesday 13 January 2026, 12.00–13.30 (Finnish time, GMT+2). The discussion will be moderated by Dr Katja Lehtisaari (Tampere University).
Participation in the event requires registration. Please sign up via this link before Sunday 11 January 2026, 23.45 Finnish time.