Gender-Blind and Anti-Feminist: Putin's Russia as a 'Norm Antipreneur'

Against the backdrop of the increasing global schisms around gender equality in recent years, the discussion of Russia's domestic anti-gender politics is coming to the fore. To date, however, little work has bridged the domestic-international divide in this discussion by thoroughly examining the interplay between Russian foreign policy, national branding and the domestic conservative turn. This gap inspires the twofold question underscoring this essay: how do anti-gender discourses emerge in Russian politics, and with what effect do these discourses travel across different political contexts?