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Sweden and NATO practice on Gotland. Photo: Karl Melander / TT
Russia has the right to defend Russian descendants on Gotland. Such claims are spread on a Russian television site.
"It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids," says Carolina Vendil Pallin at the Total Defense Research Institute.
2022.06.14 at 13.50: The article has been clarified.
On the Russian, state-controlled TV channel REN TV's site there is an opinion article with the heading: "Russian citizens / subordinates join NATO", something like Gotland's Allehanda has previously told us about.
The article on the TV site has also been disseminated and published on other Russian websites.
Article author Yurij Gorodnenko on REN TV - which often likes various topics on the channel's site - writes about the Swedish upgrading of Gotland: “It aims to secure the Euro-Atlantic security in the Baltic Sea. At the same time, Western media refers to Russia being able to claim the island in the Baltic Sea. The most interesting thing is that Moscow would really have reasons for such claims."
Later in the article it is described that Russian descendants of Gotland have been there since the Russian invasion of the island in 1808 - and that Russian law provides room to "defend former citizens of the Russian Empire".
"It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids," says Russia expert Carolina Vendil Pallin. Photo: FOI
Carolina Vendil Pallin, Russia expert and research leader at the Total Defense Research Institute, does not think that the article should be taken too seriously.
- It's a strange way of arguing. But on the other hand, we have Vladimir Putin who has been sitting at the best broadcast time and pointed out that since there were once slaves in the Gulf of Finland, you have the right to take back the story. It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids, she says.
What do you think it depends on?
- I think you can see it as part of trying to build this patriotic yr that existed after the annexation of Crimea. It's just that this time the war of attacks has not been as successful, says Carolina Vendil Pallin and continues:
- Putin refers to the story he interprets it. There are no independent media that are not labeled as foreign agents in Russia and everyone marches in the same direction and at the same rate.
Can the purpose of the article be to create a picture that Gotland belongs to Russia?
- No, there are no sensible claims in this.
Footnote: The word "poddanyj", which is stated in the title of the Russian article, is an age-old word meaning citizen, subject or subordinate.
Clarification: In the article, information about who wrote the Russian text was added, as well as that it is an opinion text.
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my edit: "poddanyj" nowadays has one meaning: a servant or subject rather. citizen would be: "graždanin" - not even close I find it funny they put it that way as "poddany" is really old Slavic word having same meaning in all Slavic languages AFAIK, can be spelled slightly different and thats it.
SWEDEN
Russian TV channel: Right defend Russian descendants on Gotland
UPPDATERAD I GÅR 13:51 PUBLICERAD 2022-06-13Sweden and NATO practice on Gotland. Photo: Karl Melander / TT
Russia has the right to defend Russian descendants on Gotland. Such claims are spread on a Russian television site.
"It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids," says Carolina Vendil Pallin at the Total Defense Research Institute.
2022.06.14 at 13.50: The article has been clarified.
On the Russian, state-controlled TV channel REN TV's site there is an opinion article with the heading: "Russian citizens / subordinates join NATO", something like Gotland's Allehanda has previously told us about.
The article on the TV site has also been disseminated and published on other Russian websites.
Article author Yurij Gorodnenko on REN TV - which often likes various topics on the channel's site - writes about the Swedish upgrading of Gotland: “It aims to secure the Euro-Atlantic security in the Baltic Sea. At the same time, Western media refers to Russia being able to claim the island in the Baltic Sea. The most interesting thing is that Moscow would really have reasons for such claims."
Later in the article it is described that Russian descendants of Gotland have been there since the Russian invasion of the island in 1808 - and that Russian law provides room to "defend former citizens of the Russian Empire".
"It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids," says Russia expert Carolina Vendil Pallin. Photo: FOI
Carolina Vendil Pallin, Russia expert and research leader at the Total Defense Research Institute, does not think that the article should be taken too seriously.
- It's a strange way of arguing. But on the other hand, we have Vladimir Putin who has been sitting at the best broadcast time and pointed out that since there were once slaves in the Gulf of Finland, you have the right to take back the story. It's like the history view is starting to run on steroids, she says.
What do you think it depends on?
- I think you can see it as part of trying to build this patriotic yr that existed after the annexation of Crimea. It's just that this time the war of attacks has not been as successful, says Carolina Vendil Pallin and continues:
- Putin refers to the story he interprets it. There are no independent media that are not labeled as foreign agents in Russia and everyone marches in the same direction and at the same rate.
Can the purpose of the article be to create a picture that Gotland belongs to Russia?
- No, there are no sensible claims in this.
Footnote: The word "poddanyj", which is stated in the title of the Russian article, is an age-old word meaning citizen, subject or subordinate.
Clarification: In the article, information about who wrote the Russian text was added, as well as that it is an opinion text.
source
my edit: "poddanyj" nowadays has one meaning: a servant or subject rather. citizen would be: "graždanin" - not even close I find it funny they put it that way as "poddany" is really old Slavic word having same meaning in all Slavic languages AFAIK, can be spelled slightly different and thats it.
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