title: Managing national ressentiment: morality politics in Putin’s Russia
abstract: Love is ﬂeeting. The dramatic chain of events that has reshaped the relations between Russia and Ukraine in the last two years has brought another conﬁrmation to that Machiavellian maxim. The unthinkable happened practically overnight as Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the emergent military confrontation in East Ukraine caused a deep rupture in relations between the two, closely related, practically fraternal nations. The social dynamics accompanying these developments unearthed heaps of emoti