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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration and translation; Introduction: A clash of two Russias, a tale of two cities; 1 Television and nationhood: The broader context; PART I Managing difference; 2 Mapping an uncertain terrain: An overview of the corpus; 3 Re-inventing Russia in television news commemorations of the 'Day of National Unity': Mediation as fracture; 4 Ethnic conflict and television news coverage of the December 2010 Moscow riots: Managing the unexpected; PART II Difference at the margins.

5 Re-working Russian diversity: The 'marginal' role of television fiction6 Transcending marginality: Ethnicity, identity and religion on Vesti-Buriatiia; PART III Difference in question; 7 (Un)covering alterity: Television, the 2012 presidential elections and the ethnic underside of Russian political discourse; 8 An unholy scandal: Profanity, abjection and the production of Russian-ness in the 'punk prayer' affair; 9 'There is war on our streets ... ': The 'national question' and migration on state-aligned television after the 2012 presidential elections; Conclusion: Difference in the balance.

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television's role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the boo.

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