title: A modern empire and its public diplomacy: On Russia’s communication with Estonia
abstract: Defining the Russian Federation as one of the four contemporary empires (Zielonka&#13;\n2012), this article links the imperial paradigm (Parker 2010; Zielonka 2012, 2013, 2015;&#13;\nColomer 2017), social constructs building (Wendt 1992), strategic narrative theory&#13;\n(Miskimmon et al. 2013), and soft power-associated public diplomacy instrumentarium&#13;\n(Melissen 2005; Nye 2008; Cull 2008, 2009; Cowan and Arsenault 2008) into a single&#13;\nconceptual framework to examine public diplomacy 
journal: LaCRIS (University of Lapland)