title: The empire strikes back : la construcción discursiva del "compatriota" y la anexión de la península de Crimea
abstract: Crimean peninsula annexation, back in march 2014, is the best case study reflecting the hability and disposition of the Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin's administration to defy international order that was stablished in the post Cold War era. This event was decisive in the strategy undertaken by Moscow since the 2000s to re-imperialize the post-Soviet zone. The present work proposes to study this case from the perspective of the “compatriot” concept, a form of propaganda constructed by R