Reimagining political protest: Russian-speaking demonstrations against the closure of the Finnish eastern border

In this text, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University Iuliia Gataulina directs attention to the narratives of Russian-speaking communities in public debate around the closing of the Finnish Eastern border and asks how these somewhat “depoliticized” and personalized narrative of kinship and empathy can challenge our understandings of what political protest can mean.