Elena Ostrovskaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Ostrovskaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostrovskaya |
| SIGNATURE | OSTROVSKAYA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | St Petersburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0664-1514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postsecular Identity Narratives in the Mirror of Buddhist Media
The article analyzes how identity narratives are constructed and presented within the postsecular public sphere of media. It is based on a representative case of the Bumba Mediaholding YouTube channel. The author is guided by the hypothesis that the postsecular identity narratives will contain interweaving symbolic codes of religiosity, ethnicity and civic self-awareness. The methodological approach of the study is a combination of the concepts o…
Role of Turkey and China in the System of Foreign Economic Priorities of Russia under Sanctions
The introduction of economic sanctions by western countries against Russia has stimulated the process of reorienting Russian trade and economic ties toward neutral partners, particularly Turkey and China. This study evaluates the extent to which Russian-Turkish cooperation is becoming a more significant factor in neutralizing the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy and compares the relative importance of Turkey and China as trade and econo…
Monks, Blogs and Three Media Cases
This paper focuses on the problem of how Buddhism was reinstitutionalized in Russia in the frame of the meta process of mediatization. The empirical part of this study included two stages and was conducted during 2020-2024. In this paper, the authors focused mainly on the peculiarities of constructing strategies in the Internet and new media via traditional Gelug ethnic offline organizations, the Russian branches of the International Karma Kagyu …
Mission Possible
The present paper dwells on the modern phenomenon of the clergy going online and exploring new audiences. The empirical study conducted by the author concerned the activities of popular Russian-speaking Orthodox bloggers whose heightening media presence is aimed at digital missionary work and catechism. The research was organized in accordance with the theoretical framework of the concept of communicative figurations that was coined by Andreas He…
Tradition as a Homeland to Return to
This article highlights the outcome of a long-term field research into the transnational identity of the post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry. It analyzes biographical interviews taken between 2015 and 2018 in St. Petersburg and Minsk to define the religious identity and day-to-day practices of post-Soviet Orthodox Jews. In this article, I argue that the modern post-Soviet Jewry is a new socio-cultural phenomenon with no historical prototypes. As to the re…
The Trade Service Agreement Between Vietnam and the Eaeu and the Formation of Negotiation Strategies on New Agreements in the Service Sector
n the last decades, the importance of trade in services in global trade flows has grown from strength to strength. This trend has stimulated the proliferation of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements aimed at ensuring equal and fair access for service providers to foreign markets. The states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are no exceptions to this global trend and strive to ensure free trade in services with foreign partners as a par…
Russian-Speaking Digital Buddhism
The paper presents the results of a study that implemented a mixed methods approach to explore the question of correlation between online and offline activities of Buddhist organizations and communities in Russia. The research was carried out in 2019-2020 and addressed the following key issues: How do Buddhist websites and social media communities actually interact with offline organizations and Russian-speaking Buddhist communities? How do the i…
Media practices of Russian speaking Orthodox Jewry
Digital Dimension of Confession
This article investigates the digital dimension of confession using the methods of structured observation and content analysis. When investigating religious practices, contemporary sociologists and anthropologists undertake their inquiry in an essentially changed social and cultural reality. The specifics of this reality can only be understood provided that the whole range of communicative spaces of religious interactions is taken into account. F…
Sustainable Economy
In this article we consider the issue of debt, which became a global concern, within another global concept – \nin the context of sustainable development and economic growth. More and more attention is paid to this \nconcept due to urgent necessity for coordination of policies at both national and global levels. The predominant \ntheoretical thinking tends to underestimate the risks. Although a lot have been made towards improving global \nfinanc…
Religious Identity of Modern Orthodox and Hasidic Jewry in St. Petersburg
This article describes the results of field research into religious Jewry of St. Petersburg. I analyze biographies of Modern Orthodox and Hasids of Lubavitcher traditions (or the Chabads as they call themselves), who in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s disintegration in the 1990s chose observance as their self-identity and lifestyle. The paper is aimed at answering the following questions: how do modern Jewish identities differ from one anothe…
Setting Up a System of Global Financial Supervision
This article analyzes global financial market regulators, with a brief look at institutional reforms within the global financial system. Its purpose is to detect and outline major shifts in the interaction of the global financial regulators within the last decade.A structural analysis of the vast empirical data on the activities of the global regulators led to a selection of the most important institutions and to a description of the major measur…
Between the battlefield and the marketplace
The article discusses the Soviet literary magazine Internatsionalnaia literatura (International Literature) as a cultural institution, an important part of the intellectual and literary contacts of the Soviet culture of the 1930s in Britain. An organ of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers and later the Union of the Soviet Writers, the magazine sent its English version to Britain and was read by an audience close to the Communist part…
Russian-Speaking Digital Buddhism
The paper presents the results of a study that implemented a mixed methods approach to explore the question of correlation between online and offline activities of Buddhist organizations and communities in Russia. The research was carried out in 2019-2020 and addressed the following key issues: How do Buddhist websites and social media communities actually interact with offline organizations and Russian-speaking Buddhist communities? How do the i…
Religious Identity of Modern Orthodox and Hasidic Jewry in St. Petersburg
This article describes the results of field research into religious Jewry of St. Petersburg. I analyze biographies of Modern Orthodox and Hasids of Lubavitcher traditions (or the Chabads as they call themselves), who in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s disintegration in the 1990s chose observance as their self-identity and lifestyle. The paper is aimed at answering the following questions: how do modern Jewish identities differ from one anothe…
Setting Up a System of Global Financial Supervision
This article analyzes global financial market regulators, with a brief look at institutional reforms within the global financial system. Its purpose is to detect and outline major shifts in the interaction of the global financial regulators within the last decade.A structural analysis of the vast empirical data on the activities of the global regulators led to a selection of the most important institutions and to a description of the major measur…
Between the battlefield and the marketplace
The article discusses the Soviet literary magazine Internatsionalnaia literatura (International Literature) as a cultural institution, an important part of the intellectual and literary contacts of the Soviet culture of the 1930s in Britain. An organ of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers and later the Union of the Soviet Writers, the magazine sent its English version to Britain and was read by an audience close to the Communist part…
Sustainable Economy
In this article we consider the issue of debt, which became a global concern, within another global concept – \nin the context of sustainable development and economic growth. More and more attention is paid to this \nconcept due to urgent necessity for coordination of policies at both national and global levels. The predominant \ntheoretical thinking tends to underestimate the risks. Although a lot have been made towards improving global \nfinanc…
Digital Dimension of Confession
This article investigates the digital dimension of confession using the methods of structured observation and content analysis. When investigating religious practices, contemporary sociologists and anthropologists undertake their inquiry in an essentially changed social and cultural reality. The specifics of this reality can only be understood provided that the whole range of communicative spaces of religious interactions is taken into account. F…
Media practices of Russian speaking Orthodox Jewry
Tradition as a Homeland to Return to
This article highlights the outcome of a long-term field research into the transnational identity of the post-Soviet Orthodox Jewry. It analyzes biographical interviews taken between 2015 and 2018 in St. Petersburg and Minsk to define the religious identity and day-to-day practices of post-Soviet Orthodox Jews. In this article, I argue that the modern post-Soviet Jewry is a new socio-cultural phenomenon with no historical prototypes. As to the re…
The Trade Service Agreement Between Vietnam and the Eaeu and the Formation of Negotiation Strategies on New Agreements in the Service Sector
n the last decades, the importance of trade in services in global trade flows has grown from strength to strength. This trend has stimulated the proliferation of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements aimed at ensuring equal and fair access for service providers to foreign markets. The states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are no exceptions to this global trend and strive to ensure free trade in services with foreign partners as a par…
Russian-Speaking Digital Buddhism
The paper presents the results of a study that implemented a mixed methods approach to explore the question of correlation between online and offline activities of Buddhist organizations and communities in Russia. The research was carried out in 2019-2020 and addressed the following key issues: How do Buddhist websites and social media communities actually interact with offline organizations and Russian-speaking Buddhist communities? How do the i…
Mission Possible
The present paper dwells on the modern phenomenon of the clergy going online and exploring new audiences. The empirical study conducted by the author concerned the activities of popular Russian-speaking Orthodox bloggers whose heightening media presence is aimed at digital missionary work and catechism. The research was organized in accordance with the theoretical framework of the concept of communicative figurations that was coined by Andreas He…
Role of Turkey and China in the System of Foreign Economic Priorities of Russia under Sanctions
The introduction of economic sanctions by western countries against Russia has stimulated the process of reorienting Russian trade and economic ties toward neutral partners, particularly Turkey and China. This study evaluates the extent to which Russian-Turkish cooperation is becoming a more significant factor in neutralizing the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy and compares the relative importance of Turkey and China as trade and econo…
Monks, Blogs and Three Media Cases
This paper focuses on the problem of how Buddhism was reinstitutionalized in Russia in the frame of the meta process of mediatization. The empirical part of this study included two stages and was conducted during 2020-2024. In this paper, the authors focused mainly on the peculiarities of constructing strategies in the Internet and new media via traditional Gelug ethnic offline organizations, the Russian branches of the International Karma Kagyu …
Postsecular Identity Narratives in the Mirror of Buddhist Media
The article analyzes how identity narratives are constructed and presented within the postsecular public sphere of media. It is based on a representative case of the Bumba Mediaholding YouTube channel. The author is guided by the hypothesis that the postsecular identity narratives will contain interweaving symbolic codes of religiosity, ethnicity and civic self-awareness. The methodological approach of the study is a combination of the concepts o…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Buddhism (3 works) · Business (3 works)