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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Human Rights in post-Soviet Space - JTM634
Title: Human Rights in post-Soviet Space
Czech title: Lidská práva v postsovětském prostoru
Form of teaching: lecture+seminar
Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2025
Duration in semesters: 1
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: 20 / unknown (22)
Maximum number of enrolled students: 22
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 1 / 2
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Ph.D.
Mgr. Daniela Kolenovská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Ph.D.
Class: Courses for incoming students
Annotation -
Human Rights violation is the common argument in the current debates between Russia, post-Soviet countries, and democratic world. The content of it is seriously different depends on the who is pronounced the sentences about human rights. It has become quite popular among political elites to explain foreign and domestic politics in terms of human rights, but at the same time human rights and the human rights movement are both in serious crises, especially in concern with authoritarianism, which is “goes global”.
The situation in the post-Soviet space are seriously diverse – from the Baltic Sea countries to Turkmenistan, and from the Belarus to Kyrgyzstan. The course seek to make an overview of the current debates on human rights in post-Soviet countries, based on the role of human rights narrative in different crises – Bronze Soldier story in Estonia and question of Russian language and aggressive Russian historical politics, Orange revolution, Maidan in Ukraine and the problem of the “promotion democracy and human rights”, Andijan tragedy and question of ‘fighting against terrorism’ and violation of the Muslim rights, especially in the Central Asia countries.

The course is for students of master's programmes. Bachelor's students can only enrol in their final year of study after the explicit consent of the teacher if the subject of the course corresponds to their final thesis.

The course is thought in English.



Last update: Kolenovská Daniela, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.09.2026)
Aim of the course
This course will seek also to understand how and why human rights have fallen off the popular agenda in the most of the post-Soviet counties today. We will explore a set of questions of the human rights violations in post-Soviet area in the frame of the debates on modern history of Russia and its neighbor countries, in the prism of different struggles between Russia and post-Soviet countries, and investigate the role of Russian Federation in the current state of art in human rights and democracy in the disputed area. Special focus will be provided for the relations between political development of Russia to authoritarianism, and its influence on the current situation with democracy and human rights in post-Soviet countries.
Last update: Kolenovská Daniela, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.09.2026)
 
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